I don't mind human sounding voices, my problem is in the scalability of
those voices. In human sounding voices, they're generally generated by
slapping speech sounds together. When you run those voices at high
speed, the slapping together of voice segments breaks down
significantly, affecting usability.
Also, because I'm from an era when computers didn't have gigabytes of
ram, and terrabytes of storage, I much prefer tools that don't take 50
times the amount of space required to do the job. Human sounding voices
are nice for some things, but I can't use them when doing serious work,
especially when said work needs to be done with a high speed voice.
On 3/31/2021 6:22 AM, Ken Perry wrote:
I totally agree about the voices. I only have this to add. I am teaching===========================================================
several students to code right now and none of them will use Elequence or
Espeak. It amazes me but there it is. They all want human voices. When I
use the best of Human voices with Jaws it is both sluggish and in many words
like the word about it sounds like mush. I would rather a well pronounced
robot than a sloppy and slow human sounding voice. The kids today though
disagree.
Ken
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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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