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

2023-09-29 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
On 2023-09-28, Jude DaShiell wrote: > espeak-ng likes to have speechdispatcher on a system Does this improve the quality of the generated speech? > and festival likes to have language-specific voices on it to use. Indeed. Which one(s) do you recommend? I tried voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts and

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

2023-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > Dear all, > > some time ago I asked for suggestions concerning Text-To-Speech > (TTS) from Org sources. Thank you to everyone who provided > suggestions! In case you are i

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

2023-09-28 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
Dear all, some time ago I asked for suggestions concerning Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org sources. Thank you to everyone who provided suggestions! In case you are interested, you can listen to sample results at [1]. Briefly, Emacspeak, espeak-ng, and festival are not good enough for my purposes

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much, that one worked. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:52:30AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Why

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

2023-09-11 Thread tomas
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:52:30AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Why does this happen? > > The gpg command given in the faq does not return what the faq claims will > be returned. > Look for the public key of Klaus Knopper: > bash: Look: command not found > bash-5.1$ gpg --keyserver

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
fenrir-screenreader is installable with pip though you may need some support getting it set up and configured. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, to...@tuxteam.de

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why does this happen? The gpg command given in the faq does not return what the faq claims will be returned. Look for the public key of Klaus Knopper: bash: Look: command not found bash-5.1$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --search-keys "Klaus Knopper" gpg: error searching keyserver:

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
Thank you for the additional pointers! I still need to check out promising combinations of those approaches, also options for MBROLA (which is not free, but applies a custom AGPL-3.0-but-not-be-sold license to the voices). ADRIANE is certainly fascinating. Best wishes Jens On 2023-09-11,

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

2023-09-11 Thread tomas
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 08:06:34AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > fenrir-screenreader is also available. > https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/Jenux > uses fenrir by default. > Klaus Knopper's public key I haven't been able to find and none of his > email addresses seem to be working any

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
espeak-ng is a fork of espeak and can use speechdispatcher. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, briangpowell wrote: > * eSpeak seems to focus on small footprints & a

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
fenrir-screenreader is also available. https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/Jenux uses fenrir by default. Klaus Knopper's public key I haven't been able to find and none of his email addresses seem to be working any longer either for the ones I found. You have a chance of getting a good

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

2023-09-11 Thread briangpowell
* eSpeak seems to focus on small footprints & a "format synthesis" method * Suggest using Festival with MBrola: https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/mbrola.html https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ and/or just install FestivalLite: apt-get install -f -y --force-yes flite *

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
On 2023-09-10, Christian Thäter wrote: > 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

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

2023-09-11 Thread 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

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

2023-09-10 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
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

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

2023-09-10 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
On 2023-09-09, briangpowell wrote: > I've turned OrgMode files into audio desktops > > It was pretty simple > > Just find the code that reveals what an icon is when you hover over it & > pipe it to some text-to-speech engine & then on to usual routes Thank you for the reply. In my case

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

2023-09-10 Thread Ihor Radchenko
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

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

2023-09-09 Thread briangpowell
I've turned OrgMode files into audio desktops It was pretty simple Just find the code that reveals what an icon is when you hover over it & pipe it to some text-to-speech engine & then on to usual routes On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 2:06 PM Jens Lechtenboerger < lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote: >

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

2023-09-09 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
Dear all, 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. Currently, I like the default model of