RE: [orca-list] making Linux a hospitable place for TTS engines like Voxin

[Sergei V. Fleytin]

Hi Kyle and others.

Just to let You and others know that address for the official github RHVoice
repository now is:

http://github.com/rhvoice/rhvoice



Stay well!

Sergei.


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces@gnome.org> On Behalf Of Kyle via
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Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 5:48 AM
To: speechd-discuss@nongnu.org; Orca-list <orca-list@gnome.org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] making Linux a hospitable place for TTS engines
like Voxin

I messed around with MaryTTS some years back. I even wrote a little
interface at one point that would allow the generic sd module to talk
through it. But I found it to be very cumbersome on most hardware, as it had
to talk to MaryTTS by sending an http request to the speech synthesizer and
playing the wav output that was returned. I also have found Java to be very
very slow overall. There was also a strange tendency for MaryTTS voices to
suddenly raise their pitch to a very squeaky high, although I didn't hear
many of the English voices do that. 
I did hear bdl get rather tinny and oldschool at random times however,
sounding autotuned or like packet loss was occurring in an extreme
low-bitrate speech recording.


Perhaps work could be done to integrate the already existing RHVoice module
into sd. I use RHVoice here every day all the time, and it sounds smoother
and runs with less resources than MaryTTS. It also doesn't get tinny or
scratchy at random times. I'm not fully sure, but I don't think new voices
require proprietary tools in order to train them either, though I could be
wrong about that. In any case, have a look at the excellent work over at

https://github.com/olga-yakovleva/rhvoice

~Kyle

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