Voice Recognition

VoiceGen – text to speech converter

Last Updated on April 1, 2026

VoiceGen is a simple text-to-speech application, with support for multiple offline/online engines such as svox and Amazon Polly.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Simple GUI.
  • Supports PictoTTS, PicoTTS (VoiceGen enhanced), and StreamElements.
  • Different languages are supported.

Website: gitlab.com/PersianGolf/voicegen
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Developer: PersianGolf
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

VoiceGen in action

VoiceGen is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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