[Emacspeak] #VOXIN Development for emacspeak speech server for the high quality Voxin Embedded voices from Oralux

["T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have no idea who is working on that; it's not me. I too would like
to use the vocalizer voices, but there is work required there that
we'll hopefully find someone to  make it happen.


"\"D.J.J. Ring, Jr.\"" (via emacspeak Mailing List) writes:
 > I understand that development for an emacspeak speech server for the high
 > quality Voxin Embedded voices from Oralux, I'd like to be a tester of this.
 > Is there a beta or alpha of this?
 > 
 > If you haven't heard the new voices, here is an email I posted to the SLINT
 > support list (below).
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > David Ring
 > 
 > As many of you know, Oralux.org has just released extremely high quality
 > premium voices for some languages and dialects.
 > 
 > To show everyone what high quality the Zoe Premium American English voice
 > is, I made a recording of it along with the still excellent IBM TTS
 > outloud voice which Slint will configure to be used for emacspeak. I
 > understand that development is underway for the new embedded Voxin voices
 > so that they will have an emacspeak engine just like IBM TTS Outloud and
 > espeak have currently.
 > 
 > This recording is temporarily available here, if either Didier or Gilles
 > wish to use it, please download it and upload it to your server space as I
 > will delete it in ten days or so.
 > 
 > https://qsl.net/n/n1ea//slint/slint.mp3
 > 
 > They still have the Compact, Pro and High versions as well as the newest
 > Premium versions, but the old IBM Outloud TTS voice is now unavailable, but
 > the one you might have purchased in the past still works and the purchase
 > URL for it will get you the latest version.
 > 
 > Here is the current price for Voxin + Vocalizer Embedded for the different
 > versions, Compact is the smallest, and is fastest, Premium is the largest
 > size files, and a fast computer is desirable.  Contact oralux for guidance.
 > 
 > The discounts are only available when you purchase multiple voices in the
 > same time.  Again, contact oralux.org for more information.
 > 
 > Compact 22.1 EUR
 > Pro 26 EUR 36%
 > High 29.91 EUR 36%
 > Premium 29.91 EUR 36%
 > 
 > Those voices are marked "Premium" on this page: https://oralux.org/voice.php
 > 
 > Advice from Gilles Casse of contact@xxxxxxxxxx about getting these voxin
 > voices in the text console.  It works flawlessly but follow
 > these instructions exactly, or if it fails, uninstall the voxin voices
 > using the voxin installer with the -u switch to uninstall.
 > 
 > Here's how to get the Voxin Embeded voices - including the latest extremely
 > high quality voices - in the text console.
 > 
 > Here is what you must do to get voxin screen reader in text console with
 > speechd-up and
 > orca in the graphical user interface:
 > 
 > Orca:
 > 
 > First, install Voxin (+Vocalizer) as root user which installs voxin system
 > wide.
 > Second, select the voxin voice using the Orca menu.
 > 
 > Configuring speechd-up for the console screen reader.
 > 
 > First, launch the following command in the console (text-based environment)
 > as root:
 > "speak-with speechd-up".
 > 
 > Second, as root user, edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf with nano,
 > using ctrl + w
 > to find the line "DefaultModule espeak-ng" and replace "espeak-ng" with
 > "voxin" so that the line
 > reads "DefaultModule voxin", save the file using ctrl + o, and exit nano
 > with ctrl + x, then reboot your computer.
 > 
 > After reboot, you will have speech in the text consoles.
 > 
 > For Slint, if you have the now unavailable IBM TTS Voice for Voxin, install
 > that, and use the utility "switch-on emacspeak" and you will have the high
 > quality voxin voice in the console, but when you run emacspeak, you will
 > have the IBM TTS engine that is inside emacspeak.
 > 
 > It is understood that
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Currently only IBM TTS and espeak emacspeak speech engines are available.
 > 
 > Configured this way, Slint will use either the IBM TTS (voxin outloud) or
 > the espeak voices, when you run "switch-on emacspeak" you will be asked if
 > you wish to use a Voxin voice, and if you do, emacspeak will use the IBM
 > TTS voice if it is installed.  If you DO NOT have the IBM TTS voice on your
 > system, answer "No" to that question as emacspeak needs a voice that has an
 > emacspeak speech engine, so it will by default use espeak-ng.
 > 
 > I for one will be looking for the emacspeak release of the voxin embedded
 > speech engine for emacspeak.
 > 
 > Best wishes to all,
 > 
 > David Ring
 > 
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