On 15/10/2024 17:12, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech quality.
I experimented a bit with emubns today. Ended up using "piper" instead of espeak. The speech quality is outstanding now, almost lifelike. I was able to install SvarDOS using only my ears and fingers and with the natural voice generated by Piper it was almost a pleasant experience. Piper is Linux-only, but that's not an issue in the context of running emubns as a DOS-compatible hardware synthesizer on a Raspberry Pi.
Another problem is that Provox pronounces every period, comma, colon and parenthesis, which becomes quickly annoying. Perhaps it can be configured somehow, I have yet to find out. It's all new to me, I have never used a screen reader before.
I have no idea what the pi would provide speech wise, nor the cost factor.
With piper integration the speech quality is excellent. The cost factor is the cost of a Raspberry Pi 3 device and a serial-to-USB cable. That is, in theory, because I did not test it on real hardware yet.
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