Hi Mateusz,
Finally had a moment to check out your piper in DOS sample.
If I am forthright, that was frankly stunning.
granted, I imagine many factors impacted that sound quality, but I have
questions about your process, both how it differs because Piper is in
Linux <what does that mean exactly?> and what you used for the output for
that sample, sound card for example.
There is a discussion of Piper for Linux accessibility, one thing
profoundly missing, speaking personally, is the ease of adjusting basic
things like rate, pitch, inflection, my understanding from command line
Linux users is that those options are not solid. certainly not like the
many DOS screen reader packages.
before I get exacted about a possible safe for my use tts, I am interested
in your process?
Thanks,
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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