Using Festival TTS with v3.1.1

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Using Festival TTS with v3.1.1 #1308

Closed AgamjotSB closed 2 months ago

AgamjotSB commented 2 months ago

Question: Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to use Festvox/Festival (or any other tts system except espeak-ng) with Foliate? Thanks

Version:

Foliate version: 3.1.1
OS/Distribution and version: Arch (kernel 6.8.7)
Desktop environment: Hyprland 0.39.1
Installation method: arch/extra repository

johnfactotum commented 2 months ago

See https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/issues/1207#issuecomment-1883594144

AgamjotSB commented 2 months ago

I got it working and now ended up using piper (a neural tts system) with pied to set it up with speech dispatcher. The faq suggested espeak-ng so I assumed it's the only one supported.

Thanks for the quick answer, and this amazing e-book reader :)