Jeff Fortin T.
@nekohayo@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@joojmachine
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears! psyduck

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. blobmiou

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

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

This video should be played with sound turned on. It demonstrates Orca reading this toot while it was being composed in Tuba, with the natural-sounding "Lessac" text-to-speech voice.
This video should be played with sound turned on. It demonstrates Orca reading this toot while it was being composed in Tuba, with the natural-sounding "Lessac" text-to-speech voice.