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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Scanner: mx0.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 0.69 X-Spam-Score: 0.69 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 5781E358D2 X-TUID: 4byS6+M+/nhC espeak-ng is a fork of espeak and can use speechdispatcher. --=20 Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. 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 migh= t > 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 l= ook > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:02=E2=80=AFAM Christian Th=C3=A4ter wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:39:26 +0200 > > Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > > > > > On 2023-09-10, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > > > > > > > Jens Lechtenboerger 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 blin= d > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >