Hi Mateusz,
The ability to adjust how much, or how little one wishes to hear things
like punctuation marks and keystrokes is the hallmark of a properly
developed screen reader.
Most of the better DOS programs allow for this, with associated drivers
written for the synthesizers adding human richness inflections, the query
sound in the human voice when a question mark is present.
I have never run provox, but have a copy. Let me see if there is a users
guide to share.
I would personally appreciate a chance to sample your piper work.
Can you create a small mp3 file to share?
As I have stated several times over the years, one reason why using Linux
directly is a firmly closed door for me has to do with a secondary
disability experience. a slight aquired brain injury from a surgery that
impacts how my brain manages spoken sound and many associated
frequencies.
With testing / experimentation leading to seizure like events for me.
You might have solved the issue. At the least you might help out my
friend Chime in California who struggles with speakup in Linux, finding
Orca with its complex interface quite a challenge.
Anyway, can you share a piper sample with us?
I have enough hardware that a Raspberry pie is not needful, at least not for
DOS.
Cheers,
Karen
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote:
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.
Mateusz
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