This video should be played with sound turned on. It demonstrates Orca reading this toot while it was being composed in Tuba, with the natural-sounding "Lessac" text-to-speech voice.

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   Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 01:22:35 JST Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

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   Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
   I can't believe my ears! :psyduck:

   I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

   Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years. :blobmiou:

   Video below demonstrates reading this post.

   #Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech