My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑
Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?
What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?
#a11y
Daimar Stein
in reply to Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) • • •GitHub - Elleo/pied: Pied makes it simple to install and manage text-to-speech Piper voices for use with Speech Dispatcher.
GitHubJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
in reply to Daimar Stein • • •Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears!
I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…
Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.
Video below demonstrates reading this post.
#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech