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TTS voices on Linux for Firefox are shit - video with examples (tube.jeena.net)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think this is just using SpeechDispatcher from the system -- so it's not a Firefox specific thing. I get a similar (but very slightly different) voice on my own system by default -- which matches what I get when I run a command like spd-say --wait "Hello world" from the command line.

I'm pretty sure SpeechDispatcher can be configured to use a different synthesis engine -- Arch's wiki has some suggestions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Speech_dispatcher -- but I haven't dug into it yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Hm, ok interesting, then I could appearently use Piper (from HomeAssistant) which has a nice sounding voice, I'll try that when I have some time: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/discussions/328