Re: [orca-list] TTS choices? Don't worry, not Voxin

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello,

one of the advantage of mbrola voices is that there are many and of good
quality.

I like the French male one that I tried.

Be aware that the are free (as in free beer) but be their licenses vary
and that the mbrola engine's license forbid commercial and military
usages. 

Also, this engine is not open source, if that matters for you.

Nevertheless, I will ship it in next Slint ISO. 

There is also Festival, and Svox pico.

All these work with Orca + Speech Dispatcher. There are others that I
didn't try, that can be used with Speech Dispatcher and, I assume, Orca.

For your information, here are all the modules shipped in Speech
Dispatcher in the git repository at time of writing:

espeak
espeak-ng
festival
flite
ivona   
pico
espeak-generic
espeak-ng-mbrola-generic
espeak-mbrola-generic
swift-generic
epos-generic
dtk-generic
pico-generic
ibmtts
cicero
kali
mary-generic
baratinoo

Best regards,

Didier

Le 29/06/2018 à 20:14, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> Hello Christopher,
>
> If you want a free voice better than espeak you can try mbrola voices.
>
> Otherwise if you want a high quality voice, you can purchase Voxygen from Hypra.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex.
>
> Le 29/06/2018 à 19:41, Christopher-Mark Gilland via orca-list a écrit :
> > These days, with Orca 3.29.1 Pre, Master, what TTS engines are out there available which speak English? 
> > Obviously, I know about ESpeak, which is the default. There's Voxin, but we won't go there.
> >
> > I dont' recall who the project was started by, but at one point I recall there being a project based off 
> > of ESpeak. It basically was ESpeak, but it had somehow been modified through its code where it sounded, 
> > not quite like Eloquence, but sort of. I think it was called ESpeak Speaker, or something along those 
> > lines. Kyle was the one who way back in the days told me about it. I just don't remember where to get it, 
> > what it was called, if it's still maintained, or how to install it.
> >
> > Finally, someone told me the Swift Cepstral voices actually are available and if purchased will work with 
> > Orca.
> >
> > I know most of you here are very biased to ESpeak. My goal here isn't to say, why would you want X synth 
> > over Y. I just want some resources where I can download other TTS voices which will work with Ubuntu, paid 
> > or not, and the resources online which would talk me step by step through how to get them up and working 
> > with Orca. Please keep your opinions about which TTS is crap and which is God of the universe to an 
> > unbiased level when writing me back. I couldn't care less what you think is the best synth. I'd like to 
> > approach this question from the bigger picture.
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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