High quality (commercial) Text to English speech software? [closed]

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Published on 2012-03-18T23:05:01Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 2:07 UTC
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I'm working on a software project and I am researching text-to-speech products to use. Does anyone know what are the current state of the art text-to-speech systems? Ideally the speech should be indistinguishable from a native American or English speaker. I'm looking for products with SDK or API that I can easily hook into.

Just to clarify and iterate on my question - I'm not looking for things like Microsoft's free text-to-speech synthesis program, I'm looking for a high quality professional product.

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