[PLUG] Open Source or Public Domain Text to Speech

[Daniel Ortiz]

This is late, but thanks for the responses.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 10:03 PM King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at linuxgalaxy.org>
wrote:

> On 8/1/22 11:35, Daniel Ortiz wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > Does anyone know of any open source or public domain text to speech that
> > allows the speech to be used in videos or more without copyright
> > infringement?
> > From, Daniel Ortiz
> As Rich mentioned, espeak-ng (successor and fork of espeak), is FOSS,
> and you can encode in a FOSS audio format (flac, ogg, etc).  Note that
> the audio produced can still infringe copyright if the original text is
> not "free".  Although, there might be a legal carve out for assistive
> purposes (screen reader for blind, etc).
>
>
>
> [ASIDE: There was some hoopla a while back about ebook readers
> incorporating text-to-speech that got the audio book people all up in
> arms].
>
> Here are some options:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESpeak  *Recommended*
> A free and open-source, cross-platform, compact, software speech
> synthesizer.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBROLA *Recommended*
> MBROLA is speech synthesis software as a worldwide collaborative
> project. The MBROLA software is not a complete speech synthesis system;
> the text must first be transformed into phoneme and prosodic information
> in MBROLA's format, and separate software (e.g. eSpeakNG) is necessary.
> Mbrola voices greatly improve the speech generated from espeak et al.
>
>
> https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> The Festival Speech Synthesis System offers a general framework for
> building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of
> various modules.
>
>
> https://freebsoft.org/speechd *Recommended*
> Speech Dispatcher project provides a high-level /device independent/
> layer for access to speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well
> documented interface. Speechd can be easily configured to use espeak-ng
> and mbrolo (for example) to simplify usage. A variety of software (KDE
> kmouth, KDE's okular PDF reader, calibre ebook management, mumble VOIP)
> have built-in support for speechd.
>
>
> Here's a comparison list (in need of update but still informative):
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_speech_synthesizers
>
> -Ed
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