Ooooh, I wonder if that would be an option for getting something better than #eSpeak for my Linux computers. I mean, sure I can understand it OK, but it's kinda grating.

@pitermach I've tried it, and getting the environment set up requires Linux wizardry that I still haven't been able to pull off. The HTK is some old patch for older code that isn't readily available now and trying to apply it breaks stuff.

@bluespacedragon Yes, recording conditions as close as possible to a recording studio tend to guarantee the best results. A good quality microphone is certainly going to boost the quality. The most important is to avoid echo, background noise etc. There are probably other things to watch out for but I haven't got all the specifics at hand at the moment, can ask though. The good thing is you can try on a small subset of sentences, around 50-100 and see how the general effect is shaping and either modify what you find annoying or carry on as you are. Also note that it is possible to train against currently supported linguistic models E.G. English. If you would like a new language to be supported, it is necessary to develop a new model for it which is a lot of work and expertise from what I've heard. Good luck!

This sounds interesting, even though I would need to learn quite a few things. Is there any demo of this rh voice synthesiser in action? would be fun to test out some voices and hear what they sound like.

Hi, the one you once new as either jakalas01 or JVSStuff on Twitter. Jacques from South Africa here. Seems like the RHVoice's page for NVDA is somewhat broken since I don't get a link to download it when I go there.