It works and, as you say, it's just OK. The voice is way too robotic to really help to improve one's pronunciation. Any clue if there's a source to get different voices which can be inputted with better pronuciation?
I did espeak -a 200 -p 60 -v en-gb since it is a British project in its beginning and the pronunciation is a little bit less robotic.
You may try out different pronunciations listed in speak --voices
Thanks for the post, bu the way! I also miss the old Mac reader.
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Yeah... it's less than ideal. I've had some ideas on how to make a better version, but they're more effort than I'm willing to put in at the moment since I primarily use MacOS. If I ever switch over to Linux full-time, I'll make something better and drop a comment here so you get notified.
Thanks. I changed your script to use the google text to speech. The voice is a lot less robotic. You can find the instructions here: github.com/yosoufe/instructions/bl...
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It works and, as you say, it's just OK. The voice is way too robotic to really help to improve one's pronunciation. Any clue if there's a source to get different voices which can be inputted with better pronuciation?
I did
espeak -a 200 -p 60 -v en-gbsince it is a British project in its beginning and the pronunciation is a little bit less robotic.You may try out different pronunciations listed in
speak --voicesThanks for the post, bu the way! I also miss the old Mac reader.
Thanks for reading the post, Ricardo!
Yeah... it's less than ideal. I've had some ideas on how to make a better version, but they're more effort than I'm willing to put in at the moment since I primarily use MacOS. If I ever switch over to Linux full-time, I'll make something better and drop a comment here so you get notified.
Thanks. I changed your script to use the google text to speech. The voice is a lot less robotic. You can find the instructions here: github.com/yosoufe/instructions/bl...
Sounds awesome!