[Emacspeak] Re: Introduction & Voice Configuration Questions

[Tim Makarios <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I don't think I'd heard of Larynx before.  Have you considered RHVoice as a possibility, if you're going to be writing a speech server for Emacspeak?
https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice
I think it lets you adjust pitch and rate, which Emacspeak can make use of if you put the right pipes in the right places (or so I understand).

The licensing of the voices is a little confusing, which is presumably why it ended up in Debian non-free, but I *think* some of the voices (like Alan, as far as I can see) are covered only by the (L)GPL, which is applied to the software as a whole.

As for how to do it, I'm certainly no expert in that, but here's some relevant documentation:
http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/TTS-Servers.html

All the best,

Tim
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On 21 January 2022 8:24:50 am NZDT, 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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