As an aside, I have discussed some months ago with ReadSpeaker people.
It ended up that they were not really interested selling voices to
individual
Linux users and adapting there TTS for Speech-Dispatcher.
Cheers, Didier
Le 10/02/2021 à 21:57, Chime Hart a écrit :
Well Mike, obviously our experiences-and-enjoyments with computers are
based on, yes, whats available, but also what we are used to, as well as
our level of tollerance for sound. My first PC in 1994, I certainly made
sure it was DEC Talk. At that time folks considered that the Catalack of
speech. Well, since I began my switch to Linux in 2003, I now use a
DecTalk U S B, while on a laptop, Voxin with its IBM TTS, both are quite
comfortable for myself. Sure but for the segment splices, there are
somewhat more natural sounding SAPI4 speech engines in windows, also
Ivona-and-ReadSpeaker, however, I don't know of any easy easy way of
working with these in Linux.
Honestly, if I were forced to only have espeak as an engine, I would
almost rather not have a PC, but I understand we all have the freedom to
make choices. Thanks for listening
Chime
