Chromium voices

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hello

I can answer only for Chromium itself, as I do not know other browsers based on it.

I know only the voices we will ship in Slackware64-14.2.1.2 (release candidate ISO to be uploaded within two hours).
Al of these sound more natural than the espeak-ng ones, to my ears:
mbrola (using the espeak-ng-mbrola-generic module of speech-dispatcher)
flite
pico
RHVoice

In addition, following voices can be bought and will work with Slint:
voxygen (baratinoo) sold by hypra.fr
voxin sold by Oralux (Gilles Casse will soon provide the Voxin installer version 2)

All these voices work with speech-dispatcher 0.9.O (the most recent released version), then if installed with Chromevox in Chromium.

As ab side Joanmarie Diggs a.k.a. Joanie is working at making Orca compatible with Chromium, she will announce when a version is available for testing.

There are other TTS that are supposed to work with speech-dispatcher, but on which I have no information like Kali.

I have also had discussion with people from ReadSpeaker.com but ther is sole technical work to do and they still have top decide if they will sell voices to individuals.

HTH,

Didier

On 11/03/2019 22:22, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> So the discussions I found about install voices from the Google Chrone store don't work? Okay, Didier, which voices would you suggest for a more natural sounding voice for a Chromium based browser?
> 
> On 11/03/2019 20:42, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hello Jace and Chime,
>>
>> Let me answer after the quotes
>>
>> Jace wrote:
>>> Ah I heard there were ways to get other voices working, such as the Flight ones or other TTS engines, hence why I asked
>> This does not depend on the screen reader (Orca vs Chromevox)
>> but on the voices you install. If they can be used with
>> speech-dispatcher,you can use them with both screen readers.
>>
>> This stands for the voices for which packages are available
>> for your distribution, as for those that you buy.
>>
>> Chime wrote:
>> I thought in Chromevox, it was essentially an Android voice?
>> No, see my answer to Jace.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Didier
>>
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