During a random conversation the other day, someone asked me about the best TTS (text-to-speech) for Mandarin. I thought it would be nice to quickly conduct an examination to compare a couple of TTS products, focusing on their ability to handle Chinese text-to-speech, ideally with a Taiwanese accent. Hopefully, I can help more people build some awesome voice assistants for Mandarin speakers!
A quick note: The TTS offerings I selected below are just from a quick search on the internet, so it’s very likely I missed something good. For example, I didn’t test those that only offer a mobile option. I also wanted to test Meta’s audiobox, but I kept running into errors. If anyone has it working, please let me know.