Re: [orca-list] sapi

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Hello all,

Hypra that sponsored Speech Dispatcher has looking for what voices would 
be good for a blind user in GNU/Linux because it's the main issue we've 
in the past.

The best free alternatives are Mbrola and Pico but we've found them less 
good than the Nuance and Acapela voices.

The only voices we've found that are equivalent in term of sound quality 
to Nuance and Vocalizer are Voxygen voices that Hypra sells in consequence.

We'd prefer to provide open source alternative but we don't have enough 
money and time to create better voices.

If you would like information on Voxygen, you can contact me privately.

Best regards,
Alex.

Le 20/11/2018 à 11:15, Jeanette C. via orca-list a écrit :
> Hello Didier,
> Nov 20 2018, Didier Spaier has written:
> ...
> > Let us know which voices you want, so that we can tell if it will be
> > available and through which the supported synthesizers.
> ...
> I wasn't asking, but reading with great interest. I have used the Ivona
> voices (German mainly, but would have loved to get an English one as
> well). They are - or were - SAPI5 voices with an online registration
> requirement, supported by the former sapi4linux, through Xvfb mouse
> positioning and clicking in a browser.
>
> Would that be something we might see in the foreseeable future?
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
> Jeanette