Isn’t it true that you can also use hardware synthesizers with Speech Dispatcher? I thought I remembered seeing modules for synths such as Apollo. Ryan Mann Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist rmann0581@xxxxxxxxx 386-383-5175 > On Jan 29, 2023, at 7:43 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le 30/01/2023 à 00:40, Karen wrote : >> Speech dispatcher is, to the best of my knowledge, a software speech source only. > > No. Speech dispatcher takes as input the text sent by screen readers like orca > or fenrir or speechd-up or speechd-el or emacspeak and send it to a speech > synthesizer (like espeak-ng, pico, flite rhvoice or voxin). The speech > synthesizer converts this text to phonemes then convert them to an audio file > using one of the voices it handles. This audio file (the speech) is sent back to > speech dispatcher, which in turn send it to an audio application like > pulse-audio or alsa or pipewire, that send it to an audio device. > > So what hear actually depends not on speech dispatcher but on the speech > synthesizer you use and the voice you select among those it handles. > > For instance if on the console you use fenrir as screen reader and espeak-ng as > speech synthesizer and one of its voices, you will hear exactly the same voice > if in the preferences GUI of Orca (another screen reader) you select the same > speech synthesizer (espeak-ng) and the same voice. Similarly if you use fenrir > with rhvoice as speech synthesizer and one of its voices, you can also use > rhvoice and hear the same voice when using Orca. > > Cheers, > Didier > -- > Didier Spaier > didieratslintdotfr > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list