[Emacspeak] Re: Introduction & Voice Configuration Questions

[Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at the project you mentioned, you'd probably want to look at how the Mac speech server is handled, since it uses Python too, or the ESpeak one, I think, if you want to use it from the command line. The speech is much less controllable than ESpeak, Voxin (IBM ViaVoice Outloud), or even Alex on the Mac, but if you're just reading a book in nov.el or just letting a man page stream through your brain, it shouldn't be too bad.

Devin Prater

r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:25 PM Hendur Saga via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Emacspeakers!

This is my first post here, so I thought I might as well introduce myself first. I've been a programmer for over a decade, a moderate Emacs user for a few years, declared "bankruptcy" a few times, and am still using it to this day. I have no visual difficulties at present, but I've found auditory UIs (and UX design in general) rather fascinating.

Unfortunately, the default espeak voice I'm stuck with so far gets very irritating, very quickly. I almost want to punch a wall, sometimes. I'm sure some of you can sympathize. I've looked through the *-voices.el and, for a Linux user, there doesn't really seem like much choice, sadly. If I were to try and add support for, say, Rhasspy's Larynx project (available at https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx), how difficult would such a task be, and what path or resources could I look at to help achieve that?

In the meantime, how do I at least switch espeak voices, within the same language? I have additional MBROLA voices from Debian I can use from the command-line.

Thanks,

Hendursaga

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