On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 05:45:16PM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote: > I've then found PiperTTS [1] which is really great especially in combination > with speech-dispatcher. For example Firefox has support for speech dispatcher > and you can use the reader mode to let it read text to you which works great. > It isn't a robotic voice like you get from pure espeak-ng.
Just my $0.02; I'm making extensive use of PiperTTS to create voiced
user interface prompts for embedded use, falling back to espeak-ng for
languages where no Piper voice exists yet.
I'd _love_ to see Piper properly included into Fedora, but it is fairly
heavyweight for interactive use (eg through speech-dispatcher), at least
if you're using the CPU to do the work. (GPU/NPU acceleration is a
pretty messy topic upstream too)
> The last one might be tricky in Fedora. The build service allows you to do
> multi package builds. You can do a single piper-voices package but that would
> be ~2GB in size.
IIRC Fedora generally splits this stuff up.
Piper doesn't have a builtin mechanism for enumerating and fetching
voices either, so there are going to be some integration warts.
- Solomon
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