Oldest text-to-speech

The first full text-to-speech system for English was developed in the Electrotehnical Laboratory, Japan 1968 by Noriko Umeda and his companions (Klatt 1987). It was based on an articulatory model and included a syntactic analysis module with sophisticated heuristics.

1. What is the oldest text-to-speech voice?
2. When was the first text-to-speech?
3. What is the most realistic text-to-speech voice?

What is the oldest text-to-speech voice?

Noriko Umeda et al. developed the first general English text-to-speech system in 1968, at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan. In 1961, physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr and his colleague Louis Gerstman used an IBM 704 computer to synthesize speech, an event among the most prominent in the history of Bell Labs.

When was the first text-to-speech?

Who invented text-to-speech? Text-to-speech for English was invented by Noriko Umeda. The system was developed in the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan in 1968.

What is the most realistic text-to-speech voice?

NaturalReader, Speechify, and Amazon Polly have the most lifelike human-sounding voices of all text-to-speech applications. Polly's Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) makes it a leading choice, with Speechify coming in close behind.