I've turned OrgMode files into audio desktops It was pretty simple
Just find the code that reveals what an icon is when you hover over it & pipe it to some text-to-speech engine & then on to usual routes On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 2:06 PM Jens Lechtenboerger < lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > does someone here produce audio via Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org > sources? I plan to do that in the context of emacs-reveal to > generate voice-over for reveal.js presentations, with open questions > [1] concerning my initial, experimental approach. > > Currently, I like the default model of Coqui-AI TTS [2] and > Microsoft SpeechT5 [3] best. Any suggestions for free and open TTS > implementations that produce even better results? Other models of > Coqui-AI? The solution should work without GPU support, which seems > to rule out Suno Bark [4]. > > The above models do not pronounce numbers/digits, and they fail to > pronounce most acronyms. In a preprocessing step I could replace > those. I use preprocessing anyways to get rid of Org markup that > might confuse the language models. Anyone here who did that > already? Maybe gruut [5] in conjunction with SSML [6] handling? > > Any other suggestions? > > Best wishes > Jens > > [1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/-/issues/20 > [2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/ > [3] https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_tts > [4] https://github.com/suno-ai/bark > [5] https://github.com/rhasspy/gruut > [6] https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/ > >
