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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:19:31 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   Discovered (lib)spiel and uuh… why just not use speech-dispatcher.
   Although I feel like at least half of the point is dbus fetishism.
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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:35:00 JST alcinnz

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     @lanodan You know: I've tried speech-dispatcher, but I found it extremely constraining. I can barely feed any SSML to it!

     Haven't gotten around to trying Spiel...

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:35:52 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @alcinnz given speech-dispatcher is effectively just a wrapper, wouldn't that be a limitation from the configured speech engine (espeak, flite, …)?
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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:41:19 JST alcinnz

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     @lanodan Not necessarily. I find I have to embed eSpeak as a library, since the commandline version has a terrible scanner. Which'll split the text up wherever, without any care.
     If I pass eSpeak the entire string directly I don't face any limits.

     I think speech-dispatcher has a similar situation.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:42:09 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • alcinnz
     @alcinnz That seems like a bug to me, did you check if it's intended behavior and/or reported as a bug?
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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:51:00 JST alcinnz

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     @lanodan Haven't bothered, I've got it working well.

     But that's besides the point: I suspect the size limits I face with speech-dispatcher are in the wrapper, not the speech synthesizers. That can easily happen, if you're allocating fixed-size buffers.

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