Re: Suggestions for Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org sources?

[briangpowell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>]

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* 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
> >
>
>
>

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