Re: [orca-list] Can I use google tts with Orca?

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

On Thursday 25 May 2017 06:18 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 05:45:40AM AEST, chrys wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > as far as i know google TTS is just available via web service. so you need
> > to be online to consume the service. not sure if that is so good for screen
> > reader usecases in case of latency, bandwidth and special reliability (if
> > you are offline you loose your speech).
> Google TTS is also part of android itself, so technically something like
> libhybris could be used to make use of it, but that would then mean
> implementing a wrapper from Google's own Text to Speech driver API to Speech
> Dispatcher, and given that you would have to go through various steps to get
> the relevant TTS bits from an android install, its not really worth it IMO.
In that case are there similar voices apart from Espeak which are free?
I think the process you suggest is long enough but doable.
Never the less it would be a project in itself.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.