Voice three, for sure.
I used to provide tech support to some people who used speech readers.
One fellow (who probably listened at 3x to 4x) needed some help, but he
didn't use a video monitor at all. There was no way I could make out
what was happening by listening to the synth voice, so I
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Sent: 11 January 2022 18:51
To: hpr@hackerpublicradio.org
Subject: Re: [Hpr] takov751
I can.
As can a lot of blind people who rely on tts.
Perhaps not for prose, but certainly for source code.
On 11/01/2022 18:49, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi Ken
>
> The third voice is hea
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:11 PM Ken Fallon wrote:
> In the past it has been argued that the more natural voices are
> difficult to understand when sped up. So I took the two most natural
> voices from the list and posted a side by side comparison to espeak at
> 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%, 350%,
Hi Ken: I have to say I liked the third voice in your demo. I also
like the first but that's because I happen to use it about 16 hours a
day and over many years one gets used to listening to any voice.
Synthetic voices have come a long way over the years and I'd say that
google-tts is very
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From: Hpr on behalf of Ken Fallon
Sent: 11 January 2022 18:09
To: m...@raspberryvi.org ; hpr@hackerpublicradio.org
Subject: Re: [Hpr] takov751
Hi Mike,
As a TTS engine for reading the screen back to me I am more than happy
with it and use it continually during the day. It's not just vi
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From: Hpr on behalf of Ken Fallon
Sent: 11 January 2022 18:09
To: m...@raspberryvi.org ; hpr@hackerpublicradio.org
Subject: Re: [Hpr] takov751
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Hi Mike,
As a TTS engine for reading the screen back to me I am more than happy
with it and use it continually during the day. It's not just visually
impaired people that rely on TTS. It does that job and does it well.
The objection I have to using espeak as the voice of HPR is that it is
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
Hi All,
We got a comment from takov751 via https://matrix.to/#/#hpr:matrix.org
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
