Hello, Paul Gevers, on Thu 05 Nov 2015 11:50:59 +0100, wrote: > How important are these kind of voices for the accessibility community?
Having various languages is of course very welcome. > Are the 8kHz voices still needed (looks like they may have been needed > in the past due to hardware requirements, but I expect all hardware > nowadays could run the 16kHz voices without any issue? I would expect so too. > Upstream there a lot more voices (15 additional ones to the ones we > ship) which I expect to be of higher quality, should we package this and > improve our defaults? I wonder. Having several voices for the same language may be useful to express e.g. text attributes (italic, etc.), but I don't think Orca makes use of this. > Does anybody have an idea how to find additional languages (except for > just duck-duck-go-ing (the name festival doesn't help to target what I > am looking for). I don't know either. Ideally festival should centralize the information, exhorting people to advertise their voices on their central website. > Should this all be under the TTS umbrella? That's probably better, for sharing maintenance with TTS-interested people. Samuel
