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I have an android app that has a very nice voice when speaking English, and it is a different voice from the one in my tablet by default (Google TTS)

How did they do that ? Is it possible to download tts packages, and integrate them in an app easily ? I managed to do text to speech easily with the user's default built in tts, but I have no idea where to start for changing this.

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There are third part companies that allow you to use their embedded voice engines, or alternatively use their RESTful services to generate the voice audio. Here are some useful links:

1. iSpeech
2. NEO Speech
3. IVONA
4. Nunance
5. AT&T
6. Acapela
7. Cereproc

There are some other providers out there that will offer voices for free, but they are of a much lower quality. You get what you pay for....