<p>You're right about the company. It's full name is 科大讯飞. 科大is short for 中国科学技术大学(University of Science and Technology of China)，my Alma mater!--this company is founded by several alumni in cooperation with the university.</p>

<p>TTS is not difficult for 科大讯飞, and they put their effort more on speech-to-text engine. But they have open source packages for both TTS and STT, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. Actually, they have been there at least since 2014. You could find them here (all-Chinese site): <a href="http://www.xfyun.cn/sdk/dispatcher" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.xfyun.cn/sdk/dispatcher</a> Their TTS and STT support A LOT of dialects.</p>

<p>Alternatively, there is a Chinese TTS on Github: <a href="https://github.com/yantze/vim-tts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/yantze/vim-tts</a>  It also supports a lot of dialects, including Sichuanese.</p>

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2016-12-22T07:26:51.457Z
2016-12-22T07:26:51.457Z
Yana
<p>No, there is no such open-source Sichuanese TTS available so far.</p>

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2016-08-25T06:45:38.810Z
2016-08-25T06:45:38.810Z
Soony
<p>讯飞 (short for 科大讯飞) is a leading tech company in speech synthesis and recognition.  An <a href="http://www.xfyun.cn/default/online_demo" rel="nofollow">online-demo</a> for Sichuanese TTS is demonstrated on their website. In addition, they have provided an offline <a href="http://www.xfyun.cn/sdk/dispatcher" rel="nofollow">TTS SDK</a>, you may have a try.</p>

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2016-08-26T02:22:53.010Z
2016-08-26T03:38:23.097Z
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miaoever
<p>There's a couple of iOS apps that support Sichuanese TTS (text-to-speech):</p>

<ul>
<li>川话达人</li>
<li>语音合成助手</li>
</ul>

<p>From what I can tell it's all from a company called <a href="http://dev.voicecloud.cn/msc/help.html" rel="nofollow">讯飞</a>, but I'm not totally sure.</p>

<p>Is there an open source Sichuanese TTS available? </p>

<p>Or</p>

<p>An offline Sichuanese TTS that doesn't need to download the audio each time?</p>

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2015-10-19T08:27:14.373Z
An open source TTS, offline, and for a Chinese dialect used by only 8 percent of the total population? I'm not sure. Even open source TTS for standard Chinese is rare, if it exists.
Winfred Huang
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2016-08-26T02:52:54.203Z
Whether it can handle Sichuanese mainly depend on the data of the TTS, not the code.
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Open source Sichuanese TTS (语音合成?)
# Open source Sichuanese TTS (语音合成?)

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-08-27)

There's a couple of iOS apps that support Sichuanese TTS (text-to-speech):

* 川话达人
* 语音合成助手

From what I can tell it's all from a company called [讯飞](http://dev.voicecloud.cn/msc/help.html), but I'm not totally sure.

Is there an open source Sichuanese TTS available?

Or

An offline Sichuanese TTS that doesn't need to download the audio each time?

**Tags:** topolect, software

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: An open source TTS, offline, and for a Chinese dialect used by only 8 percent of the total population? I'm not sure. Even open source TTS for standard Chinese is rare, if it exists.  
> **username_2**: Whether it can handle Sichuanese mainly depend on the data of the TTS, not the code.  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2016-12-22. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

You're right about the company. It's full name is 科大讯飞. 科大is short for 中国科学技术大学(University of Science and Technology of China)，my Alma mater!--this company is founded by several alumni in cooperation with the university.

TTS is not difficult for 科大讯飞, and they put their effort more on speech-to-text engine. But they have open source packages for both TTS and STT, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. Actually, they have been there at least since 2014. You could find them here (all-Chinese site): <http://www.xfyun.cn/sdk/dispatcher> Their TTS and STT support A LOT of dialects.

Alternatively, there is a Chinese TTS on Github: <https://github.com/yantze/vim-tts> It also supports a lot of dialects, including Sichuanese.


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### Answer by username_4 on 2016-08-25. Score: 0

No, there is no such open-source Sichuanese TTS available so far.


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### Answer by username_5 on 2016-08-26. Score: 0

讯飞 (short for 科大讯飞) is a leading tech company in speech synthesis and recognition. An [online-demo](http://www.xfyun.cn/default/online_demo) for Sichuanese TTS is demonstrated on their website. In addition, they have provided an offline [TTS SDK](http://www.xfyun.cn/sdk/dispatcher), you may have a try.


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