I am currently trying to bring together components to generate voice with lipsync for the haptek characters (web use).
I purchased the 12 voices from ATT (best ratio price/quality).
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/The best would be loquendo, but i receive a phone call from the representative and he his asking 4000$ pervoice and per year ?!!.
Cepstral are bout same price than ATT but, in my opinion less good, but i could eventually purchase them also.
I will use a cheap and nice
product called ActiveTTS (
http://www.guangmingsoft.net/activetts/ )
that lets you write a Text to wav files in almost any language.
The last step is the Hap Ogg factory that is supposed to convert the wav to ogg with lip sync.
does anybody has this converter so i can test it (before purchase) to make such this workflow is ok.
We could even share the effort and cost, so i can provide a simple form that anybody can use.
the form would include a field for text to convert, language needed, eventually the format (mp3, wav ogg, ogg+lips, lipsync only) and the voice (male/female)
and return the link the file, so you can have your character speaks.