Novelty TTS Voices and calling TTS programmatically.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Did you try all the variants shipped with espeak-ng, including the klatt ones?
Some are really funny.

Didier

Le 07/02/2022 à 18:58, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> Okay, so I have two questions that really aren't related except they
> both deal with TTS and were born out of the same idea.
> 
> The first is whether there exist any, for lack of a better term,
> novelty voices. Things like pirate, cowboy, comically exaggerated
> foreign or regional accents, voices designed to sound like old school
> sci-fi robots instead of just being relics from the early days of
> tTTS, etc. Preferably free-to-use and compatible with espeak-ng or
> another TTS engine that's readily available for Linux.
> 
> The second is whether there's a way to invoke a TTS engine from within
> a program. I'm a old hat at writing C++ terminal applications that
> read from the keyboard or a text file and write to the screen or a
> text file, but what if, instead of just writing output to the screen,
> I wanted to invoke a TTS engine and have it speak the output in a
> voice of my choosing? Or in other words, how do I make terminal apps
> self-voicing? I know the basics of invoking espeak-ng from the command
> line, putting a string in quotes to have it read directly, using thee
> -v option to set the voice and the -f option to read from a file, and
> I know enough bash scripting to do simple conditional logic, but being
> able to invoke it from within a C++ program would offer greater
> flexibility, and while I know the system function can be used to
> execute external programs, I've always gotten the impression that
> should be a last resort).
> 
> What sparked these questions was the idea of a talking pirate skull
> that speaks the roll of a d20 and adds an appropriate quip and
> thinking about how to make it more flexible without having to record
> voice clips for every spoken phrase... though I confess to not knowing
> how to make my programs play audio files either.
> 
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