Re: [PLUG] Open Source or Public Domain Text to Speech

[King Beowulf]

On 8/1/22 11:35, Daniel Ortiz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Does anyone know of any open source or public domain text to speech that
> allows the speech to be used in videos or more without copyright
> infringement?
> From, Daniel Ortiz
As Rich mentioned, espeak-ng (successor and fork of espeak), is FOSS,
and you can encode in a FOSS audio format (flac, ogg, etc).  Note that
the audio produced can still infringe copyright if the original text is
not "free".  Although, there might be a legal carve out for assistive
purposes (screen reader for blind, etc).



[ASIDE: There was some hoopla a while back about ebook readers
incorporating text-to-speech that got the audio book people all up in arms].

Here are some options:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESpeak  *Recommended*
A free and open-source, cross-platform, compact, software speech
synthesizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBROLA *Recommended*
MBROLA is speech synthesis software as a worldwide collaborative
project. The MBROLA software is not a complete speech synthesis system;
the text must first be transformed into phoneme and prosodic information
in MBROLA's format, and separate software (e.g. eSpeakNG) is necessary.
Mbrola voices greatly improve the speech generated from espeak et al.


https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
The Festival Speech Synthesis System offers a general framework for
building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of
various modules.


https://freebsoft.org/speechd *Recommended*
Speech Dispatcher project provides a high-level /device independent/
layer for access to speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well
documented interface. Speechd can be easily configured to use espeak-ng
and mbrolo (for example) to simplify usage. A variety of software (KDE
kmouth, KDE's okular PDF reader, calibre ebook management, mumble VOIP)
have built-in support for speechd. 


Here's a comparison list (in need of update but still informative):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_speech_synthesizers

-Ed

Re: [PLUG] Open Source or Public Domain Text to Speech

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Daniel Ortiz wrote:


Does anyone know of any open source or public domain text to speech that
allows the speech to be used in videos or more without copyright
infringement?


Danile,

How about ?

It's FOSS and using it for videos or other uses does not copy the source so
there's no infringement. It's likely copyleft with a GPL or LGPL version and
you could use it like you use a web camera video recorder to make your own
videos.

Rich

[PLUG] Open Source or Public Domain Text to Speech

[Daniel Ortiz]

Hello everyone,
Does anyone know of any open source or public domain text to speech that
allows the speech to be used in videos or more without copyright
infringement?
From, Daniel Ortiz