and/or just install FestivalLite:
apt-get install -f -y --force-yes flite
* Note EmacSpeak {mentioned in another email} is written by OrgMode user & programmer TV Raman--not sure EmacSpeak will help you at all; but it might be interesting for you
** Klaus Knopper distributes some very interesting free software that includes an audio-desktop called ADRIANE that maybe you can look at--I'd love to hear what you find out if you do:
** Knopper invented the "run Linux entirely from a cdrom" craze--which still is very useful in many ways--suggest you give Knoppix & Adriane a look
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:02 AM Christian Thäter <
ct@pipapo.org> wrote:
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
>