I've turned OrgMode files into audio desktops

It was pretty simple

Just find the code that reveals what an icon is when you hover over it &
pipe it to some text-to-speech engine & then on to usual routes

On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 2:06 PM Jens Lechtenboerger <
lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> 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.
>
> Currently, I like the default model of Coqui-AI TTS [2] and
> Microsoft SpeechT5 [3] best.  Any suggestions for free and open TTS
> implementations that produce even better results?  Other models of
> Coqui-AI?  The solution should work without GPU support, which seems
> to rule out Suno Bark [4].
>
> The above models do not pronounce numbers/digits, and they fail to
> pronounce most acronyms.  In a preprocessing step I could replace
> those.  I use preprocessing anyways to get rid of Org markup that
> might confuse the language models.  Anyone here who did that
> already?  Maybe gruut [5] in conjunction with SSML [6] handling?
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Best wishes
> Jens
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/-/issues/20
> [2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/
> [3] https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_tts
> [4] https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
> [5] https://github.com/rhasspy/gruut
> [6] https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/
>
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