Hi,
Glad the guide came through, I got a message stating the post needed
approval.
While your YouTube link was a personal closed door, google's removing
basic
html access being part of the reason, your second link let me get the audio
file for download.
Others can speak to how available these Raspberry pie things are world wide,
how easy to configure independently, I take it no software is needed to
run them?
As for the braille and speak, my understanding is the unit was largely
popular for braille users, less than ten percent of the sight loss
population these days. Perhaps the odd inflection factor comes from it
not being used to processing speech generally?
Only speculation, I can be wrong here.
Still, if your software speech solution is great quality, can be coded
across the board and so forth it might be a feather for a wide
population. Screen readers are not only used by those experiencing
sight loss. Those with some learning disabilities use them as well.
Thanks,
Karen
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote:
On 17/10/2024 00:22, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I have never run provox, but have a copy. Let me see if there is a
users guide to share.
Thanks for sharing. It appears provox have a few different modes for
processing punctuation. These can be switched with slash-F5.
I would personally appreciate a chance to sample your piper work.
Can you create a small mp3 file to share?
I made a video of the SvarDOS "BNS" installation with emubns acting as the
Braille 'n Speak synth and Piper used as the TTS backend. Link:
https://youtu.be/C6gEjqdI9-E
an audio-only MP3 export can be listened to at the link below. It starts
after some 15s of silence.
http://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/svardos/svardos-emubns-piper.mp3
The TTS part is not perfect, but probably as good as it can be for a quick
hack I have put together in a a couple of hours. Provox is sometimes cutting
the phrases at odd places. I guess this did not matter back in the day with
actual BNS devices as these were probably talking in some monotonous
semi-robotic tone, but now it makes piper do strange inflections sometimes.
Not much I can do about that, I'm afraid.
I will look into putting the emubns+piper tandem on a Raspberry Pi with some
automated serial port detection. If it happens to work as I expect it to, I
will upload a plug-and-play image that transforms a cheap Raspberry Pi device
into a BNS speech synth that can be used with DOS computers.
Mateusz
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