Hi,
is there any interest in text to speech?
On my desktop system I needed text to speech output to get calendar reminders
read to me that I don't miss any meetings or appointments. However most of
what is available sounds like it is from the year 2000.
I've then found PiperTTS [1] which is really great especially in combination
with speech-dispatcher. For example Firefox has support for speech dispatcher
and you can use the reader mode to let it read text to you which works great.
It isn't a robotic voice like you get from pure espeak-ng.
If you want to hear how it sounds you can try at [2].
If someone is interested in maintaining it, I could bring it to fedora and
would be co-maintainer. The patches for espeak-ng are all upstream in the
meantime, just not in a release yet. It would require adding [7]. It would
require speech-dispatcher 0.12 which will be in Fedora 42 [3].
The following packages are needed to be packages:
piper-phonemize [4]
piper-tts [5]
piper-voices [6]
The last one might be tricky in Fedora. The build service allows you to do
multi package builds. You can do a single piper-voices package but that would
be ~2GB in size.
Best regards
Andreas
[1] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
[2] https://piper.ttstool.com/
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242345
[4] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:gladiac/piper-phonemize
[5] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:gladiac/piper-tts
[6] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:gladiac/piper-voices
[7] https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/pull/2127
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