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Now we just need text to speech so we can truly interact with our computers hands free.

PyWoody 1y ago
If you're on Mac, you can use `say`, e.g., say "This is a test message" --voice="Bubbles" EDIT: I'm having way too much fun with this lol say "This is a test message" --voice="Organ" say "This is a test message" --voice="Good News" say "This is a test message" --voice="Bad News" say "This is a test message" --voice="Jester"
- braden-w 1y ago
  LOL that's pretty funny, thank you for the share!
Aachen 1y ago
$ apt install espeak-ng $ espeak-ng 'Hello, World!' It takes some adjustment and sounds a lot worse than what e.g. Google ships proprietarily on your phone, but after ~30 seconds of listening (if I haven't used it recently) I understand it just as well as I understand the TTS engine on my phone If there's a more modern package that sounds more human that's a similar no-brainer to install, I'd be interested, but just to note that this part of the problem has been solved for many years now, even if the better-sounding models are usually not as openly licensed, orders of magnitude more resource-intensive, limited to a few languages, and often less reliable/predictable in their pronunciation of new or compound words (usually not all of these issues at once)
- 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
  $ apt install festival $ echo "Hello, World!" | festival --tts Not impressively better, but I find festival slightly more intelligible.
  - Aachen 1y ago
    Will give it a spin, thanks!
    - 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
      I also just found something that sounds genuinely realistic: Piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main). It's slow but apparently you can run it as a daemon to be faster, and it integrates with Home Assistant and Speech Dispatcher. $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip libsndfile1 ffmpeg $ python -m venv piper-tts $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/pip install piper-tts $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/python3 -m piper.download_voices en_US-lessac-medium $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/piper -m en_US-lessac-medium -- 'This will play on your speakers.' To manage the install graphically, you can use Pied (https://pied.mikeasoft.com/ https://pied.mikeasoft.com/), which has a snap and a flatpak. That one's really cool because you can choose the voice graphically which makes it easy to try them out or switch voices. To play sound you just use "spd-say 'Hello, world!'" More crazy: Home Assistant did a "Year of Voice" project (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/ https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/) that culminated in a real open-source voice assistant product (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/) !!! And it's only $60??
      - Aachen 1y ago
        I've tried Piper using this app: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine It has some mispronounciations in the texts I tried to listen to, besides using so much RAM that it kills basically all other apps to make space for this. Not really worth it when espeak is already understandable Festival I've tried in the meantime and doesn't support Dutch or German, two of the three languages I use regularly. I keep coming back to espeak at the only option that will simply always work xD

If you're on Mac, you can use `say`, e.g., say "This is a test message" --voice="Bubbles" EDIT: I'm having way too much fun with this lol say "This is a test message" --voice="Organ" say "This is a test message" --voice="Good News" say "This is a test message" --voice="Bad News" say "This is a test message" --voice="Jester"

braden-w 1y ago
LOL that's pretty funny, thank you for the share!

Aachen 1y ago

$ apt install espeak-ng $ espeak-ng 'Hello, World!' It takes some adjustment and sounds a lot worse than what e.g. Google ships proprietarily on your phone, but after ~30 seconds of listening (if I haven't used it recently) I understand it just as well as I understand the TTS engine on my phone If there's a more modern package that sounds more human that's a similar no-brainer to install, I'd be interested, but just to note that this part of the problem has been solved for many years now, even if the better-sounding models are usually not as openly licensed, orders of magnitude more resource-intensive, limited to a few languages, and often less reliable/predictable in their pronunciation of new or compound words (usually not all of these issues at once)

0xbadcafebee 1y ago
$ apt install festival $ echo "Hello, World!" | festival --tts Not impressively better, but I find festival slightly more intelligible.
- Aachen 1y ago
  Will give it a spin, thanks!
  - 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
    I also just found something that sounds genuinely realistic: Piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main). It's slow but apparently you can run it as a daemon to be faster, and it integrates with Home Assistant and Speech Dispatcher. $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip libsndfile1 ffmpeg $ python -m venv piper-tts $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/pip install piper-tts $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/python3 -m piper.download_voices en_US-lessac-medium $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/piper -m en_US-lessac-medium -- 'This will play on your speakers.' To manage the install graphically, you can use Pied (https://pied.mikeasoft.com/ https://pied.mikeasoft.com/), which has a snap and a flatpak. That one's really cool because you can choose the voice graphically which makes it easy to try them out or switch voices. To play sound you just use "spd-say 'Hello, world!'" More crazy: Home Assistant did a "Year of Voice" project (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/ https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/) that culminated in a real open-source voice assistant product (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/) !!! And it's only $60??
    - Aachen 1y ago
      I've tried Piper using this app: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine It has some mispronounciations in the texts I tried to listen to, besides using so much RAM that it kills basically all other apps to make space for this. Not really worth it when espeak is already understandable Festival I've tried in the meantime and doesn't support Dutch or German, two of the three languages I use regularly. I keep coming back to espeak at the only option that will simply always work xD