I won't argue the quality pros and cons of espeak although I like it
quite a bit but for quality of speech google TTS is available on linux
which every android talkback user is aware of. I use it on my linux
text console through chrome and it works quite well. So I go back and
forth between espeakup and Google TTS.
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Not if one has an auditory processing disorder.
stimulates the dizzy centres of my brain actually, adding the reputation for
poor quality, even noted on their voice file pages, and clearly I am not
alone in my view.
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Mike Ray wrote:
IMHO there is nothing poor about eSpeak. It is the single best thing
that ever happened to computer accessibility bar none.
On 10/02/2021 20:41, Karen Lewellen wrote:
and where would the smart watch quality speech come from?
Software speech in Linux remains rather poor.
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Mike Ray wrote:
Why would a Linux smart watch be running a tty?
On 10/02/2021 14:38, Martin McCormick wrote:
I've been looking for an inexpensive talking watch that doesn't
fall apart in 3 months and noticed that various entities are
trying to make linux-based smart watches. This might be a
perfect platform on which to run a speakup instance.
One concept idea I read about used an ARM-based processor
like the raspberry Pi and even was supposed to support WiFi.
If one needed 8 talking timers with each one playing a
different tune when it timed out, you might have to write the app
yourself, but the only limitation would be your imagination and
available RAM. If next week, you only needed one talking timer
but this timer should announce it's time at 2 minutes, 2 minutes
37 seconds and finally 3 minutes and 27 seconds, you zap the 8
talking timers
and upload your new special talking timer executable.
The WiFi would let your watch keep itself set via ntpd.
After all, it's a watch and the linux is the power tool that lets
you leap tall buildings at a single bound.
Has anybody done this already and, if so, what platform
does it run on?
The concept idea I read that used the ARM was written
over a year ago and, as far as I know, is still only a concept.
Martin McCormick
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Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery
https://cromarty.github.io/
http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/
http://www.raspberryvi.org/
