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> just a small server, hope that it wont crash when posting

> the link here

In all honesty I was just looking for some pre-processed examples.

The API itself seems intuitive enough, good job.

What really stands out to me is that open-source text-to-speech is really awful compared to commercial solutions - which surprises me. Does anybody know why this is the case? (And not just "money", I'm talking technology)

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I tested the text-to-speech and it was acceptable, on pair with the robotic voice many screen readers use. For me it's not that important that it sounds like a real human, it's more important that it's accurate, and that you can hear what it say. Also pre-processed examples is not really any useful, as the author will likely pick examples that turned out good. This API testing page was very useful though! As it was very easy for me to test myself.

when using right ssml formatting, output quality is not so bad. but it cannot compete commercial engines, thats right.

i guess thats for the same reason that google is dominating the speech recogniction world: they have tons of training data available. not smarter algorithms, just more data.

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