[Emacspeak] Re: Introduction & Voice Configuration Questions

[Ishe Chinyoka <ishechinyoka@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI David,

Unfortunately, for me on Archlinux, Voxin fails to work in 
Emacspeak. I
even tried the option of downloading the Emacspeak Installer from
Oralux. Restarting my system did not have the Voxin voices. 
Putting that
line of "
(setq "dtk_Program" "outloud")"
instead results in Emacspeak going silent. So I had to just resign 
to
the fact of using Espeak voices.




Thanks,



Ishe


On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 01:32  "D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via Emacspeak" 
<emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> wrote:
> Oralux.org sells the old IBM Text to Speech modules (EUR 4.19) 
> which work in emacspeak, and
> https://oralux.org/ has an installer which works in many Linux 
> distros. Additionally, Oralux now
> sells the Vocalizer Embedded voices in an amazing number of 
> languages and dialects (400)
> which work in text console and in Orca with satisfying results. 
> Vocalizer Embedded is selling
> for EUR 22.10 to 29.81 depending on the quality of the voice 
> from "Compact" to "High".
>
> I use Zoe ML- High because it was easiest for me to hear.
>
> I have it working in console with Debian and Slint / Slackware.
>
> It would be wonderful if it were free to use and modify, but it 
> is what it is and it's very good.
>
> I also wish a speech engine for it would be developed because I 
> find the voices very easy to
> understand even at fast rates.
>
> I have no connection with oralux.org other than being a happy 
> customer of both the IBM TTS
> voice which I use in emacspeak and the Embedded voices.
>
> I think it was easiest for me to use the Embedded voices in Orca 
> in GUI and in the CLI but
> espeak-ng in emacspeak, because I could not figure out how to 
> run regular IBM TTS in
> emacspeak while running Voxin Embedded in console.  I have a 
> desktop keyboard and I just
> press num pad 0 and Enter and the console voice stops, type 
> "emacs" and I have emacspeak
> working. Voxin provides a script called "voxin-say" to hear and 
> test it's modules. voxin-say
> "text to say" | aplay being the command. voxin-say --L lists the 
> installed voices which must be
> inserted into and selected in configuration files voxin.ini.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:10 AM Tim Makarios via Emacspeak 
> <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org>
> wrote:
>
>  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
>  <><
>
>  On 21 January 2022 8:24:50 am NZDT, Hendur Saga via Emacspeak
>  <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> 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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>  brevity.
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