On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM Andreas Schneider <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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
I would love to see this in Fedora to support Fedora KDE's TTS. I could potentially help out as a co-maintainer, and maybe a few others from the KDE SIG might be as well. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
