Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

2020-01-12 Thread Jason White
From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 12:20 To: Jason White Cc: Devin Prater , "debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org" , Vojtěch Šmiro , Alex ARNAUD Subject: Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice) Jason said: "If it b

Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

2020-01-12 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Jason said: "If it becomes reliable and works in real time, it could be adopted as the default for Linux systems." Real time meaning when asked for on a host computer, or meaning when networked via Internet with a networked databank? Much of the world has only Internet available by very costly sa

Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

2020-01-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jason White, le dim. 12 janv. 2020 11:22:34 -0500, a ecrit: > There is interesting text to speech work underway at Mozilla - all free > software/open-source. > > Demonstration: https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/commonvoice-loc-sens-attn > > Git repository: https://github.com/mozilla/

Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

2020-01-12 Thread Jason White
There is interesting text to speech work underway at Mozilla - all free software/open-source. Demonstration: https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/commonvoice-loc-sens-attn Git repository: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS If it becomes reliable and works in real time, it could be adopted as the

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

2020-01-10 Thread Devin Prater
I cannot confirm this, but there is the point that screen readers only send one sentence at a time to the speech synthesizer. Now, what happens with Emacspeak or other more regular TTS tools I don’t know, but the fact that speech synthesizers sound pretty much the same, besides Macintalk, when s

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

2020-01-10 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Devin, Not to go too far off topic with this, but how does it speak only one sentence at a time. I have nothing to use it on right now, so I don't know. Can anyone confirm that this one and only "conversational" voice just speak one sentence at a time? Agree, that's not conversational, conversa

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

2020-01-10 Thread Devin Prater
It’s okay, probably the best Nuance has, but they’ll need to do more than just go one sentence at a time in order to be “conversational.” I think what they mean by that is that the voice sounds smooth and pretty, for their actual customers now, the automated phone software market. Don’t be surpr

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

2020-01-10 Thread Chime Hart
You know, David, while Gilles says in April, we may have a Speakup connector for those voices, I wrote Nuance, asking how I could purchase for Linux? They said they didn't have, but would forward on to their team. And yes, I agree, several of those are fabulous-and-I really want them as well. C

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

2020-01-10 Thread Vojtěch Šmiro
Hello. Try to write at cont...@oralux.org I don't know, if Giles is at this list. Best regards Vojta. Dne 10. 01. 20 v 15:45 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. napsal(a): Everyone, There is only one "conversational" voice at least in any English that I found. I was blown away when I listened to it. I

New Nuance Conversational Voice

2020-01-10 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Everyone, There is only one "conversational" voice at least in any English that I found. I was blown away when I listened to it. It's fabulous. It's called Zoe conversational. https://www.nuance.com/omni-channel-customer-engagement/voice-and-ivr/text-to-speech.html Can Voxin get permission fo