From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: briangpowell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>,
"Christian Thäter" <ct@pipapo.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org sources?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:07:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2663a3b8-dad9-ce20-3432-684838735adf@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFm0skGuP9fPi68WkrzrjwJWtZ+uc-B1WOTPtOhMCc0KRFjPpw@mail.gmail.com>
espeak-ng is a fork of espeak and can use speechdispatcher.
--
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, briangpowell wrote:
> * eSpeak seems to focus on small footprints & a "format synthesis" method
>
> * Suggest using Festival with MBrola:
>
> https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/mbrola.html
>
> https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
>
> and/or just install FestivalLite:
>
> apt-get install -f -y --force-yes flite
>
> * Note EmacSpeak {mentioned in another email} is written by OrgMode user &
> programmer TV Raman--not sure EmacSpeak will help you at all; but it might
> be interesting for you
>
> ** Klaus Knopper distributes some very interesting free software that
> includes an audio-desktop called ADRIANE that maybe you can look at--I'd
> love to hear what you find out if you do:
>
> https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html
>
> ** Knopper invented the "run Linux entirely from a cdrom" craze--which
> still is very useful in many ways--suggest you give Knoppix & Adriane a look
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:02 AM Christian Thäter <ct@pipapo.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:39:26 +0200
> > Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2023-09-10, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes:
> > > >
> > > >> does someone here produce audio via Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org
> > > >> sources? I plan to do that in the context of emacs-reveal to
> > > >> generate voice-over for reveal.js presentations, with open
> > > >> questions [1] concerning my initial, experimental approach.
> > > >
> > > > Emacspeak is a mature Emacs solution for TTS. However, it aims blind
> > > > users, not presentations. Still,
> > > > http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Quick-Installation.html
> > > > might be a good starting point for TTS options.
> > >
> > > Thank you for the suggestion. With espeak this indeed pronounces
> > > numbers and abbreviations but its audio quality it not good enough
> > > for my purposes. I am looking for (near-) human voices...
> >
> > using mbrola is probably as good as possible with free software:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBROLA
> >
> > still not perfect, but much better than the builtin voices of espeak or
> > festival (YYMV).
> >
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > > Jens
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-11 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-09 18:05 Suggestions for Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org sources? Jens Lechtenboerger
2023-09-09 21:20 ` briangpowell
2023-09-10 14:35 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2023-09-10 10:43 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-10 14:39 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2023-09-10 20:08 ` Christian Thäter
2023-09-11 8:33 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2023-09-11 9:14 ` briangpowell
2023-09-11 12:06 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-11 12:27 ` tomas
2023-09-11 13:52 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-11 16:30 ` tomas
2023-09-11 17:21 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-11 14:48 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-11 12:07 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2023-09-11 12:31 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2023-09-28 13:11 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2023-09-28 14:16 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-29 7:56 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
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