[chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 169, Issue 5

[The Doctor]

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On Thursday, January 5th, 2023 at 14:43, K0LNY_Glenn <glenn at ervin.email> wrote:

> For the developers, I'm wondering if there is a way to make it self-voicing?

There are quite a few open source speech synthesis packages out there.  They're
of varying quality, however.  A brief list:

* CMU's flite: http://cmuflite.org/
* Mary TTS: https://github.com/marytts/marytts
* GamaTTS: https://mym.eng.br/gama_tts.html
* Epos: https://epos.speech.cz/
* Espeak: https://espeak.sourceforge.net/

The nice thing about them is, they're available in many distros' default package
repositories.  Many of them also have Python bindings.

It may also be possible to use an offboard free speech synthesis service using
their native APIs, but that would also require that the machine be online when
programming the radios.  Not a big deal functionally speaking (if you're pulling
from a repeater directory, let's say) but not everybody would be okay with the
privacy implications.

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