I'm top-posting this as both Trenton and I can't see, and Trenton seems, like most of us who can't see, to prefer top-posting.
At the risk of being called a miserable troll I really cannot see the appeal of that awful MaryTTS voice which was clipping to such a bad degree it was hard to understand. And more than just me has said that because a friend from raspberry-vi thinks so too. I will ask on the Orca list for Kyle, who gets on there, to remind me of how he uses svox-pico to do tts on Linux. pico is the female voice familiar to users of the screen-reader on Android. I don't see what people object to with eSpeak, but I know a lot of folks don't like it. But then some strange people don't like warm, flat British beer, and yet ALL brits know Americans can't make beer :-p Mike On 20/11/2014 19:06, Ken Fallon wrote: > On 2014-11-20 20:05, Trenton Matthews wrote: >> In that case, for text to speech summary intros, please keep the >> woman voice if you can... Or figure out how to switch the ESpeak >> voice to the Klatt 4 voice. The woman's voice reminds me of >> summaries from the show called "A Lot Of Linux Links," though in >> this case, it does sound more natural. > > > How about you figure it out and do an episode on it. > > See what I did there :) > > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK The box said: 'install Windows XP, 7 or better'. So I installed Linux Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ >From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
