Hear2Read Indic Speech Synthesizer (Hear2Read NG)
- Author: Hear2Read Contributers
- Visit add-on's website/source code
Available downloads
| Version | Channel | Minimum NVDA version | Last tested NVDA version | download count since last release update | Last release date | Download | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.3 | stable | 2022.1 | 2025.1 | 579 | 2025-07-04 11:32:41 | Hear2Read NG 1.7.3 (stable) | 
| 1.8.0 | beta | 2022.1 | 2025.3 | 88 | 2025-10-13 05:58:38 | Hear2Read NG 1.8.0 (beta) | 
Description
This is a speech synthesizer for 11 Indic languages and English (with Indian accent) that generates natural human speech. It is based on the work done by the piper TTS team (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper). The addon includes a voice manager for installing one or more Indic voices. Supported languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu
