title: High-Quality Text-To-Speech engine for personal use
body: <p>I'm looking for a high-quality TTS engine that I can afford (let's say less than 1000$). So far, I've tried <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/">flite</a> and <a href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/">festival</a> with default voices. However, while the results are certainly understandable, technical texts are hard to follow.</p>
  
  <p>Commercial TTS solutions from <a href="http://www.loquendo.com/">Loquendo</a> and <a href="http://www.readspeaker.com/">Readspeaker</a> <a href="http://www.loquendo.com/en/demo-center/interactive-tts-demo/">sound way better</a>. However, these companies don't seem to be willing to sell their product to mere mortals - I can't find a price on either's homepage.</p>
  
  <p>So, what are good TTS solutions for personal use?</p>