On 2023-09-10, Christian Thäter wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:39:26 +0200 > Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > >> On 2023-09-10, Ihor Radchenko wrote: >> >> > Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes: >> > >> >> 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. >> > >> > Emacspeak is a mature Emacs solution for TTS. However, it aims blind >> > users, not presentations. Still, >> > http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Quick-Installation.html >> > might be a good starting point for TTS options. >> >> Thank you for the suggestion. With espeak this indeed pronounces >> numbers and abbreviations but its audio quality it not good enough >> for my purposes. I am looking for (near-) human voices... > > using mbrola is probably as good as possible with free software: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBROLA > > still not perfect, but much better than the builtin voices of espeak or > festival (YYMV).
This sounds promising. I’ll check it out. Many thanks Jens
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