* 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 * Note EmacSpeak {mentioned in another email} is written by OrgMode user & programmer TV Raman--not sure EmacSpeak will help you at all; but it might be interesting for you ** Klaus Knopper distributes some very interesting free software that includes an audio-desktop called ADRIANE that maybe you can look at--I'd love to hear what you find out if you do: https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html ** Knopper invented the "run Linux entirely from a cdrom" craze--which still is very useful in many ways--suggest you give Knoppix & Adriane a look On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:02 AM Christian Thäter <c...@pipapo.org> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:39:26 +0200 > Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > > On 2023-09-10, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > > > > > Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> 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 > > > > >
