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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/emmatonkin/statuses/112241405063991632">emmatonkin (emmatonkin@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:37:51 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@emmatonkin" title="emmatonkin@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/138884-48-20230621115421.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="emmatonkin" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">emmatonkin</a></section><article><p><a href="https://tooting.ch/@Jeffrey">@Jeffrey</a> <br>You might find something useful on <br>* <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/state-of-screen-reading-reading-on-desktop-linux/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/state-of-screen-reading-reading-on-desktop-linux/</a> <br>* <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/08/screen-reading-part-2-looking-at-coqui-tts/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/08/screen-reading-part-2-looking-at-coqui-tts/</a></p><p>As far as text to speech goes, I use Piper text to speech as part of the Home Assistant setup. It sounds pretty nice to me as far as these things go. You can try different voices and languages on this page. <a href="https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/</a></p><p>Brief discussion of piper config options setting voice speed ( –length_scale) and pause between sentences (–sentence_silence) here:  <a href="https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/tts-text-to-speech-in-linux-piper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/tts-text-to-speech-in-linux-piper/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2916600#notice-5801115">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-04-09T23:37:51+09:00" title="Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:37:51 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@emmatonkin/112241405063991632" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@emmatonkin/112241405063991632">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: samthursfield.files.wordpress.com</div><h5><a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/state-of-screen-reading-reading-on-desktop-linux/">State of screen reading on desktop Linux</a></h5><div> from <span>Sam Thursfield</span></div></header><div>Reading a computer screen wears out your delicate eye-balls. I would like the computer to read some web-pages aloud for me so I can use my ears instead.Here’s what I found out recently about …</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: samthursfield.files.wordpress.com</div><h5><a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/asus-motherboards-and-usb-boot/">Asus motherboards and USB boot</a></h5><div> from <span>Sam Thursfield</span></div></header><div>I’m writing this mainly for google’s benefit. If you’re trying to get an ASUS motherboard, such as the M3N78-VM I have, to boot from a memory stick, it turns out you have to do it…</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2479710">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.antixforum.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/tts-text-to-speech-in-linux-piper/">TTS (text-to-speech) in Linux: Piper</a></h5><div> from <span>PPC</span></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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emmatonkin (emmatonkin@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:37:51 JST emmatonkin
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You might find something useful on
* https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/state-of-screen-reading-reading-on-desktop-linux/
* https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/06/08/screen-reading-part-2-looking-at-coqui-tts/
As far as text to speech goes, I use Piper text to speech as part of the Home Assistant setup. It sounds pretty nice to me as far as these things go. You can try different voices and languages on this page. https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
Brief discussion of piper config options setting voice speed ( –length_scale) and pause between sentences (–sentence_silence) here: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/tts-text-to-speech-in-linux-piper/
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