Is there any TTS (Text To Speech) engine for Cantonese?

There's a web site here that can do this (they support a number of Mandarin voices, one of which uses a Cantonese dialect; please also note that the "Taiwanese" voice listed is actually speaking Mandarin rather than the local Taiwanese dialect {which is not the same as Mandarin despite some misunderstanding by many foreigners that it is}):

SitePal - Text to speech
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal

You can enter the following Chinese characters (which are a rough translation of a William Shakespear quotation, which I've also included for your convenience):

溢出的良好轉換壞。
An overflow of good converts to bad.

Randolf Richardson

Posted 2011-07-21T16:09:01.543

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It's good but I need a engine to be installed on Windows in order to use it in Lingoes - a dictionary. – ITFan – 2011-07-21T20:41:40.350

Oh, then what you need to mention in your question somewhere is that you "need text-to-speech software that doesn't require constant access to the internet, and is in the form of a self-contained/stand-alone program." – Randolf Richardson – 2011-07-22T01:00:33.797

1Hm... Maybe you're right. It's a package can be installed same as Microsoft Anna voiced in Windows 7. – ITFan – 2011-07-22T13:39:56.413

Are you interested in Hong Kong Cantonese, or Canton Cantonese? Although these two are mostly similar, there are some key differences (in addition to the accents). – Randolf Richardson – 2011-07-21T17:00:40.403

Uhm.. anyone care to explain the downvotes? – Apache – 2011-07-21T17:05:02.010

1@Randolf Richardson : They are both OK ! – ITFan – 2011-07-21T20:38:23.533

Is there any TTS (Text To Speech) engine for Cantonese?

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