Re: Suggestions for Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org sources?

[Christian Thäter]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:39:26 +0200
Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> On 2023-09-10, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> 
> > Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes:
> >  
> >> does someone here produce audio via Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org
> >> sources?  I plan to do that in the context of emacs-reveal to
> >> generate voice-over for reveal.js presentations, with open
> >> questions [1] concerning my initial, experimental approach.  
> >
> > Emacspeak is a mature Emacs solution for TTS. However, it aims blind
> > users, not presentations. Still,
> > http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Quick-Installation.html
> > might be a good starting point for TTS options.  
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion.  With espeak this indeed pronounces
> numbers and abbreviations but its audio quality it not good enough
> for my purposes.  I am looking for (near-) human voices...

using mbrola is probably as good as possible with free software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBROLA

still not perfect, but much better than the builtin voices of espeak or
festival (YYMV).

> 
> Best wishes
> Jens
>