And here was me thinking about posting to the list about how much better
it is now with the softer music in the background and a nice punchy
eSpeak voice.
I still have no idea what the objection to the eSpeak voice is.
If you spend as many hours a day coding as I do, and rely on tts to make
this possible, then eSpeak is the way forward. Although I know this may
only be true for English speakers. Not sure how good eSpeak is at other
languages.
People who complain about eSpeak are probably the same people who never
get any work done because they are constantly fiddling with the desktop
wallpaper.
:-p
On 11/01/2022 10:44, Ken Fallon wrote:
Hi All,
We got a comment from takov751 via https://matrix.to/#/#hpr:matrix.org
<quote>
Greetings i am a long listener of the shows . And of course planing to
make my first show . I would like to ask question regarding tts at the
beginning of the show usually I hear the espeak robotic voice . In the
workflow have you considered using mimic1 or opentts / Mozillatts or
something along those lines ? It’s seems like these would be compatible
with licensing as well and bir more realistic voices . A few examples
https://hub.docker.com/u/synesthesiam
</quote>
Re-posted with permission
Sample voices are here: https://synesthesiam.github.io/opentts
@Mike Ray
I would like to try and get a happy balance between meeting your needs
and having a voice that is friendly. While I love espeak it is not
friendly - it literally put my kids in tears when they were younger :-)
Could you have a listen to some of the other voices and see if any of
them come close to your requirements for TTS
FYI I find these two "friendly"
* https://synesthesiam.github.io/opentts/#coqui-tts_en_en_ljspeech
* https://synesthesiam.github.io/opentts/#coqui-tts_en_en_vctk
--
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
He/him
"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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