I wish there was a comprehensive multi-hour documentary on the history of screenreaders and voice synthesis. This is something I would binge non-stop, because I've been using this software for so many years and it would be great to know the entire history of these sorts of things. #Blind, #ScreenReaders, #SpeechSynthesis

Exciting news on open-source neural voices!
Our first experiment is complete with fantastic results! Check out the audio sample attached to this post.
For this month, @pneumasolutions provided GPU resources for training. I really appreciate their contribution.
This is just the beginning. To keep training going, I'm still accepting donations. Any amount helps.
I'm happy to receive your donations via PayPal:
paypal.me/geotts
Please mention mush42/tts in the notes.
#SpeechSynthesis #AI #ML

Just dropped on the App Store: #RHVoice for #iOS. For now only #Macedonian and #Albanian languages are supported but it's worth bookmarking/installing this now to follow updates. Again, new linguistic communities have been included to the #Apple ecosystem with high-quality, free-of-charge voices. apps.apple.com/pl/app/rhvoice/… #Accessibility #Blind #SpeechSynthesis #TextToSpeech #Languages

So since this does not seem to be widely disseminated knowledge, the RH Voice speech synthesizer engine allows for training your own voice models by associating sets of sentences in a text file with their corresponding recordings as wav files. There is a tutorial about this on the project's Wiki at:
github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/wik….
I haven't tried it myself yet so can't answer possible questions, others have though so it surely works.
Happy hacking, creating SAPI, NVDA, Android voices or whatever else you imagine! ##SpeechSynthesis #Accessibility #NVDASR #Blind