TDIL Text-to-Speech API
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The facts
Each one read from TDIL Text-to-Speech API's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility
- The site describes TTS integrated with a screen reader for visually challenged users, available in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Commercial use
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Contact
- The TTS API page lists tdildc[at]cdac[dot]in as its email contact.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Development
- The TTS voices were developed by the Indian Language Text to Speech Consortium headed by IIT Madras as part of the TDIL programme under MeitY, Government of India.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Framework developers
- CDAC Mumbai and IIT Madras jointly developed the framework for integrating the voices into websites.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Indian English
- The TTS API page also lists Indian English among the voices developed by the consortium.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended audience
- The TTS research project states that it aims to deploy speech synthesis for visually challenged persons.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The TTS API page describes voices for Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Assamese, Manipuri, Bodo, and Indian English.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- The TDIL portal footer says it is designed, developed, and maintained by CDAC GIST, Pune.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Open source licensing
- TDIL says the TTS system is completely open source and its resources may be used under the CC-BY 4.0 license.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Program
- The product page places the work under India's Technology Development for Indian Languages program, under MeitY.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Project consortium
- The TTS API page says the Indian Language Text to Speech Consortium was headed by IIT Madras and that the website framework was jointly developed by C-DAC Mumbai and IIT Madras.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- The TTS project converts normal language text into speech and aims to serve visually challenged persons.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Support contact
- The centre's homepage lists tdildc[at]cdac[dot]in as its email contact.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Synthesis technology
- The site says the TTS languages were developed using the open-source FESTIVOX framework and an HTS-based engine.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Voice demo
- The resource page says users can check TTS voice quality for Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Web service
- The TDIL home page says text-to-speech is available as a web service and links to a demo.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Website API
- The TDIL resource page describes a TTS API for websites and provides integration steps.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Website integration
- A framework developed jointly by CDAC Mumbai and IIT Madras integrates the TTS voices into websites.checked 13 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Android app
- Sandesh Pathak is an Android SMS reader listed for Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Gujarati.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Android integration
- TDIL reports a non-exclusive agreement with OS Labs India to integrate TTS in nine Indian languages into its Android-based First Touch regional operating system.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Browser plugins
- The site lists Mozilla and Chrome browser plugins for Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, and Gujarati.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- web,android,chrome_extension,apichecked 20 Sep 2026
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