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

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

I don't recall seeing a fork of espeak, but you can use espeak-ng now, 
which has mostly better pronunciations now, and is the continuation of 
original espeak, as the lead developer of the original espeak seems to 
have either dialed an address outside of the known stargate system or 
boarded a ship to another galaxy. I recall indicating that the klatt4 I 
think voice may be more to your liking, or you can use the Michel voice 
variant, but you need to cat the files or try to get Orca to see the 
voice variants.


There is another voice called Gama TTS, which is forked from GNUSpeech, 
but it sounds kinda weird. It already has a speech-dispatcher module, 
but it will require a rather different build method in order to use it, 
as it uses cmake, and tells me to build from another directory. I'm not 
sure about Swift, as it's rather old now as I recall, it's only 
available for x86 and x86_64, which I no longer have, and the cost is 
quite high for a single voice, although I thought there was supposed to 
be a 5 minute trial or something. As far as I know, it should still have 
a download link, but I'm not sure where to find it now. Of course 
Festival and Flite are still available, and either of those can talk 
with many more voices than just that drugged robot voice that it uses by 
default. Unfortunately however, I can't figure how to make spd work with 
any of these other Flite voices, and Festival takes some extra magic to 
get running. Hopefully some of this helps.

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