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

[Jude DaShiell]

espeak-ng likes to have speechdispatcher on a system and festival likes to
have language-specific voices on it to use.
fenrir which you didn't mention runs in user land and has no kernel
dependencies.


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On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> some time ago I asked for suggestions concerning Text-To-Speech
> (TTS) from Org sources.  Thank you to everyone who provided
> suggestions!  In case you are interested, you can listen to sample
> results at [1].
>
> Briefly, Emacspeak, espeak-ng, and festival are not good enough for
> my purposes.  Maybe I'm missing relevant backend options.  IMHO,
> Coqui-AI TTS [2] and Microsoft SpeechT5 [3] are far superior.
>
> Best wishes
> Jens
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/-/wikis/Sample-TTS-results
> [2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/
> [3] https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_tts
>
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