Re: [orca-list] Utilitary TTS for orca

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

I just bought the old IBM voice and the Samantha voice by Vocalizer from 
Oralux. I am using the IBM voice right now. Its as good as ever.  I have 
not even installed Samantha yet. I should do that, I paide like $30 for 
it.  But the IBM voice costs less than $5 American. It was worth it to 
me to get past the bug in espeak where it does not honor capitalization 
style. I cannot code with the TTS saying the word "capital" before every 
capital letter.

I lost speech twice last week and had to reboot. It seemed to be tied to 
me accessing a web page with a ton of widgets. Those tend to give orca 
problems. But speech would stop and nothing I have found allowed me to 
restart it. I had to reboot. Right now, I suspect speech-dispatcher, not 
orca but I'll admit I don't know. The only other thing is that when 
reading whole sentences, orca tends to pause as if there is a comma in 
the text when there is no comma. Its a teensy bit disorienting. But the 
voice is clear and very responsive. I can type really fast but I cannot 
get ahead of the speech engine.

The voices come with an installer script. after running the installer 
script and rebooting, you can go into orca settings and begin using the 
voice. I'm not entirely sure rebooting is necessary. The installer 
script says to do it. But its really easy to begin using the voices you 
buy from Oralux.




On 1/21/20 8:25 AM, Krishnakant Mane via orca-list wrote:
> Hi Devin,
>
> I have been wanting to try Voxin for quite some time.
>
> But as time and situations had it I could not do so.
>
> I have a couple of questions about this, and the site does not have 
> clear answers for my questions.
>
> 1,When I am buying Voxin what all do I exactly buy?  I mean I get a list 
> of /voices to purchase from.  Is that all or do I have to also get a 
> base Voxin package and then add voices to it?/
>
> /2, If I read correctly, I will need to buy different packages for 
> different voices.  So in Orca how does one setup voxin with multiple 
> voices?/
>
> /I would be purchasing over the week end so that I have enough time to 
> configure and play around./
>
> /I have latest Orca on Ubuntu 18.04./
>
> /That is to say I have compiled latest source release on the said distro 
> and not the default Orca that comes with Ubuntu 18.02./
>
> //
>
> On 15/01/20 7:42 pm, Devin Prater via orca-list wrote:
> > There is Voxin <https://voxin.oralux.net>, which is IBM ViaVoice TTS, 
> > which sounds the same as Eloquence.
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 14, 2020, at 4:23 PM, Tirecias Engineering via orca-list 
> > > <orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > >
> > > I guess orca still using speak ng as its TTS engine, as NVDA for windows.
> > >
> > >
> > > I understand speak ng is a very lite tts, but is there some TTS which 
> > > can work in orca and that might sound more like Eloquence?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
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