A new tts on Linux

Sat Nov 5 23:32:25 UTC 2016

Earlier I was referring to kali linux thinking possibly kali tts had 
been adopted by kali linux.  That apparently is not the case.  More on 
this later since a sighted contact will be able to do specific testing 
and get back to me with information I was never able to learn by myself.

On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 19:23:18
> From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi at free.fr>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux
> 
> Hi,
>
>
> Le 03/11/2016 ? 23:39, Jude DaShiell a ?crit :
>> The next question is are these new voices going to be easier to set up
>> and use than mbrolla?
>
> At least, as easy as mbrola ones.
>
>> One computer I can run kali on the other not.  The difference is I have
>> a proper monitor data cable for only one computer and no cable for the
>> second computer and kali makes no post-install accessibility provision
>> for no monitor connected by default even if no monitor is detected
>> during installation.  In that, kali resembles its relatives though so
>> this is a wider problem than just kali.
>
> It's clearly not related to speech synth. What happens exactly? It seems
> a problem related to the graphical server itself.
>
> Regards,
>
>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:49:59
>>> From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi at free.fr>
>>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux
>>>
>>> Interesting feedback. I don't know what's for English, but for French
>>> mbrola has some "belgium" accent, sometimes hard to understand. And few
>>> prosody. So Kali is an improvement as more understandable. But maybe
>>> it's less true in English.
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 03/11/2016 ? 22:33, Devin Prater a ?crit :
>>>> It sounds a lot like MBROLA. Good, but it's been done before.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/3/2016 3:13 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are English samples:
>>>>> Rosalind :
>>>>> https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/y3F1fkxSzl6bxm9/download
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom :
>>>>> https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/lVG0hmXQyJOvGlh9/download
>>>>>
>>>>> They have no settings here, it's "raw". Orca can suit voices according
>>>>> to typical parameters in Preferences, and Kalinux.ini enables to set
>>>>> prosody.
>>>>>
>>>>> To have new languages, let's see 1st how the community sees this
>>>>> product. Given that the tts itself isn't free software, doing this
>>>>> would
>>>>> include to collaborate with university. Possible, but anyway (even
>>>>> if it
>>>>> becomes free software in some years)it has a cost (about 60000 euros
>>>>> per
>>>>> language). The technique used is not trivial: recording human voices on
>>>>> some significant text/sounds, then processing to create appropriate
>>>>> algorithms. It's a big work with skills in linguistic and signal
>>>>> processing, but if we have success with Kali, we'll be able to pay for
>>>>> additional languages indeed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 03/11/2016 ? 16:51, Anders Holmberg a ?crit :
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>> What languages are included?
>>>>>> How can we help to bring other languages to that tts?
>>>>>> /A
>>>>>>> On 3 Nov 2016, at 11:32, Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud at member.fsf.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear M. Peveto,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The voices Tom and Rosalind are English voices.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Alex ARNAUD
>>>>>>> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
>>>>>>> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 03/11/2016 ? 02:49, Mark Peveto a ?crit :
>>>>>>>> Does this have english voices?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mark Peveto
>>>>>>>> Registered Linux user number 600552
>>>>>>>> Everything happens after coffee!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We are proud announcing release of Kali for GNU/Linux. It includes:
>>>>>>>>> - three French speaking voices: Patrick, Michel and Guillemette;
>>>>>>>>> - two French speaking voices: Tom and Rosalind.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kali is slight, understandable and fast, nearly natura-speaking.
>>>>>>>>> You can
>>>>>>>>> set usual parameters, and also prosody. With Orca, you can
>>>>>>>>> decide to
>>>>>>>>> affect a voice according to what you're reading: link, uppercase
>>>>>>>>> word,
>>>>>>>>> regular word.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I tried and felt as if I had a new screen reader! You can test a
>>>>>>>>> 45-minutes demonstration release on-demand. If you want to
>>>>>>>>> install it
>>>>>>>>> forever, xou can buy it for 85 euros. It is the balance between
>>>>>>>>> quality,
>>>>>>>>> wise cost, for a product manufactured by people who are casy to be
>>>>>>>>> contacted for any improvement, although the program is not free. Of
>>>>>>>>> course, Hypra provides the product with suitable speech-dispatcher
>>>>>>>>> module, which is being shipped upstream as a free program.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any feedback or test request is welcome. Here's samples:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> HYPRA, progressons ensemble
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> T?l.: 01 84 73 06 61
>>>>>>>>> Mail: contact at hypra.fr
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Site Web: http://hypra.fr
>>>>>>>>>
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>>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>>
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