I create my teaching materials as #OER with #EmacsReveal [1]. For my course on IT Systems [2] in summer term 2025, I switched to #Kokoro [3] as #TextToSpeech model, and students generally liked the quality (see README of emacs-reveal for evaluation results). Teaching resources are video-like, interactive HTML presentations with audio, generated from #OrgMode text files using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

This holiday season, I found the time to release #EmacsReveal 9.54.0, which includes the settings I used for IT Systems. I also updated the #TTS Howto [4] to use Kokoro.

Feel free to reuse my course materials and emacs-reveal! All the best for 2026!

[1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/
[2] https://oer.gitlab.io/oer-courses/it-systems/
[3] https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
[4] https://oer.gitlab.io/emacs-reveal-howto/tts-howto.html

#Emacs #Org #RevealJS #CICD #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Education

I create my teaching materials as #OER with #EmacsReveal [1]. For my course on IT Systems [2] in summer term 2025, I switched to #Kokoro [3] as #TextToSpeech model, and students generally liked the quality (see README of emacs-reveal for evaluation results). Teaching resources are video-like, interactive HTML presentations with audio, generated from #OrgMode text files using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

This holiday season, I found the time to release #EmacsReveal 9.54.0, which includes the settings I used for IT Systems. I also updated the #TTS Howto [4] to use Kokoro.

Feel free to reuse my course materials and emacs-reveal! All the best for 2026!

[1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/
[2] https://oer.gitlab.io/oer-courses/it-systems/
[3] https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
[4] https://oer.gitlab.io/emacs-reveal-howto/tts-howto.html

#Emacs #Org #RevealJS #CICD #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Education

TextAudio is now open source!

A privacy-first text-to-speech platform that converts documents into audiobooks without Big Tech surveillance. Features voice cloning, 23 languages, and production-ready microservices architecture.

Your documents, your data, your control. Built on sovereignty principles, released under MIT license.

Feel free to continue.

🔗 https://github.com/Pariatorn/textaudio

#OpenSource #Privacy #TTS #TextToSpeech #SelfHosted #Sovereignty #VoiceCloning #Python #FastAPI #SvelteKit #FOSS

TextAudio is now open source!

A privacy-first text-to-speech platform that converts documents into audiobooks without Big Tech surveillance. Features voice cloning, 23 languages, and production-ready microservices architecture.

Your documents, your data, your control. Built on sovereignty principles, released under MIT license.

Feel free to continue.

🔗 https://github.com/Pariatorn/textaudio

#OpenSource #Privacy #TTS #TextToSpeech #SelfHosted #Sovereignty #VoiceCloning #Python #FastAPI #SvelteKit #FOSS

Handy, https://handy.computer/.

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

> Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field—all without sending your voice to the cloud.

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy

#tts #TextToSpeech #privacy

Handy, https://handy.computer/.

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

> Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field—all without sending your voice to the cloud.

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy

#tts #TextToSpeech #privacy

I've been meaning to share this for a while, but for any Android users out who want to use a text-to-speech engine other than Google's, I recommend Sherpa TTS: https://github.com/woheller69/ttsEngine

It's open source, offline, multilingual, and available on F-Droid.

I use text-to-speech a lot with my RSS readers (Feeder and ReadYou), and it's been a game-changer.

🧵

#texttospeech #tts #opensource #fdroid #rss #Feeder #ReadYou #degoogled #candidefindings

I've been meaning to share this for a while, but for any Android users out who want to use a text-to-speech engine other than Google's, I recommend Sherpa TTS: https://github.com/woheller69/ttsEngine

It's open source, offline, multilingual, and available on F-Droid.

I use text-to-speech a lot with my RSS readers (Feeder and ReadYou), and it's been a game-changer.

🧵

#texttospeech #tts #opensource #fdroid #rss #Feeder #ReadYou #degoogled #candidefindings

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca#SpeechDispatcher #accessibility#Pied#Linux #texttospeech

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca#SpeechDispatcher #accessibility#Pied#Linux #texttospeech

What localhost #genAI for #TextToSpeech exists?

- Windows or Linux
- RTX 4090

I want natural sounding TTS to support my disability and my law degree that starts in August

What localhost #genAI for #TextToSpeech exists?

- Windows or Linux
- RTX 4090

I want natural sounding TTS to support my disability and my law degree that starts in August