Hi Tamas,
I do have voxin working on my pi. I believe the maintainer is on this list.
Pranav
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Behalf Of Tamas Geczy
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 3:21 PM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Still no go for more voices.
Has anyone tried the Voxin Vocalizer which is arm compatible?
I remember getting that to work with a voice. You can buy one voice, but it
does add up if you want multiple voices. Otherwise if you know a bit of
tinkering and own a Vocalizer product elsewhere, it could be possible to get
those voices to work in the Voxin copy. I won't go into too much detail as I
believe Nuance's license only allows you to use a voice on one actively-used
copy of that license.
I notice though that the Voxin site is currently down, so no way to buy or
download voices. This is rather unfortunate and I hope they can get it up and
running soon.
-Tamas
On 3/31/21, blind.grey.wolf@xxxxxxxxx <blind.grey.wolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1. E Speak sounds like a person who can't even get the frogs out of===========================================================
their throat.
2. I once was sighted as well, now total blind and pretty much deaf.
So yes the voice matters when you can't hardly hear, and if the voice
sucks, which it does for being a small foot print on my meager 128gig
micro SD card, I'm willing to download 100 gig of a voice that sounds
like a person even if I have to pay a little for it.
3. Its kind of funny you said that Micro$oft and Apple are million
dollar companies, yes while that is true, so is Linux. What do you
think landed the stuff on the moon ran, it sure wasn't Micro$crash and
Apple pinwheeling.
4. At least Narrator don't sound like a person with a bull frog in
their voice even back in windows 95 days.
5. I've search high and low, without going into the black areas to
find a working way to get any, and I mean any voices to work, yet
there is none that works, even if you follow every key stroke to the letter.
6. all I want is one voice, just one to install. Cepstral David is
all I want to work. Yes I know its not free, yet following all the
instructions step by step does not work. I can get it to run the
installer, yet it will not install, even after typing in the required command
to do so.
7. Have a Good Day.
Matthew
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On Behalf Of Michael A Ray (Redacted sender "mike.ray" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:57 AM
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Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Still no go for more voices.
Matthew
You're banging your head against the ceiling of your own knowledge.
All of the repositories of free and Open Source software available on
all distributions of Linux contain software which installs very easily
and comfortably.
There are things which are not accessible. There are also things which
run on Windows which are not accessible, even with the Windows
internal screen reader, Narrator.
Why are you so focused on particular voices? What is wrong with eSpeak?
Your first language is obviously English, and eSpeak does English very
well indeed, and what is more it is a very small footprint, and does
not require a working Internet connection to work.
I don't understand why so many people don't like using eSpeak. Before
I went blind, I did not spend all day bitching about the wallpaper on
my desktop, I just got on with being productive.
If something does not work, I find out why, filling holes in my
knowledge as I go.
I don't sit in front of Linux expecting everything to be spoon-fed to me.
Linux is not backed by billion dollar companies with billion dollar
development budgets.
I think it is the Voxin voices you are trying to install, I might be wrong.
If it is, then I also think Voxin is not free, it is certainly not
Open Source.
If you hate Linux so much, I suggest you scuttle back to Windows, or
Mac, and let Apple and Microsoft hoover up your data while you use them.
Alternatively, you could roll up your sleeves and learn a lot of stuff
by trying to work out what is going on.
Mike
On 30/03/2021 23:40, blind.grey.wolf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello.
I've tried all the tips that was given to me on here, and none of
them are working at all.
I even went to try installing a Cepstral voice selecting Arm and
David as the voice. I had to download the package with my windows
since for some reason, you can not download any of their voice with
chromium, I can get to the voices and clicking on David does nothing.
So I downloaded the voice on windows put on thumb drive transferred
the file to the raspberry pie 400 and extracted, then ran the install
file and type in yes and nothing, just a bunch of text running down
and then it goes yyyyyyy yyyyyy.
This is really showing how lame Linux is, and why it never became
main stream, something as simple as installing a program, voice and
so forth should not be so stupidly dumb to work. It’s 2021, where is
the smart in smart devices? Seemed like its going backwards. Even
Basic 101 was smarter than this.
Anyhow, sorry about my ranting. I just want one simple voice
installed and its David, or foxen. That’s all I want working on the
thing, otherwise it’s a piece of junk OS and isn't worth messing with.
Matthew
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