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

[Christian Thäter]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:39:26 +0200
Jens Lechtenboerger  wrote:

> On 2023-09-10, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> 
> > Jens Lechtenboerger  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
> 

Re: Typing latency

[Christian Thäter]

On 2021-02-09 09:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:

>On Monday,  8 Feb 2021 at 19:24, Sébastien Miquel wrote:
>>  1. Is anyone experiencing something similar ?
>
>Yes, particularly since I moved to using exwm as my window manager, so
>not necessarily org related.  For instance, I find that having doc-view
>buffers active, my whole Emacs shows latency.  This is most visible in
>org mode buffers but probably because that's where I spend most of my
>time.
>
>What Emacs version are you using?


Apropos, try out the native-comp Emacs branch.
https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html That should give a decent
performance boost. 

Christian