Hello folks
Well what do you know?
I have recently installed the newest version of the NVDA open source
screen reader for Windows.
And it now uses espeak-ng (ng for new generation).
I don't know how 'new generation' it is. On Linux there are still
problems with it responding to 'stop' commands. And the build system is
still a mess.
But...
There are some new voices.
The default voice, variant 'Max', is the one every photon-dependent one
of you moans about.
But I have fallen in love with the new voice called 'Edward 2'. It is
lovely. And it still features eSpeak's small footprint. No bloatware,
unlike MaryTTS and the like. eSpeak continues to be light enough to run
on even the first generation Raspberry Pi.
I listened to the OpenTTS HPR episode a few nights ago. So I cloned the
repository, because I thought I might be able to write a speakup (Linux
console screen reader) to OpenTTS connector, based on espeakup. But
OpenTTS failed to build.
I will go back to it when I get a chance. But don't get much spare time
at the moment.
Just thought you might like to hear me banging on about eSpeak again,
but this time in a not-so-snarky way.
Mike
--
Michael A. Ray
Software engineer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
He/him/cis
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery
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