[arm-allstar] TTS translation options

Thu Sep 3 21:33:10 EST 2015

So what TTS do they use?
73 Doug
WA3DSP
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:16:44 -0500
From: w0kgw3 at gmail.com
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] TTS translation options

Doug,
There's a way to do all the weather stuff in Asterisk, www.nerdvittles.com has all the scripts and tutorials to get there, and they are available for use.
Might be an option to integrate, as we are already using asterisk.
Cheers,
Joel
W0KGW

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Neil k8it <k8it at cac.net> wrote:

Chris,
Being legally blind I purchased a voice for my RPI, so I 
can hear the WX scripts etc.
I did like the audio quality  of Googles TTS and 
don't think the pricing is too bad. I do have a question about it. Does that 
price include the SPEECH TO TEXT service? I have need for it as well. Any 
thoughts?
BTW speech to text would make for some fantastic allstar 
scripts

Thanks
73 Neil Sablatzky  K8IT
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From: Chris Zenchenko 
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 5:07 PM
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org 
Subject: [arm-allstar] TTS translation options

Not to beat a dead horse but the loss of tts for the weather scripts has been a major frustration for 
me.
I spoke with Doug, Wa3DSP the other evening and mentioned I 
had been digging in to options.
The bottom line for distribution is free but as a blind user 
of speech synthesizers for as much as 16 hours per day I know quality 
matters.
I can live with poor but people in my office freak out when 
hearing even the better voices I have available.
I can think of several options but none of them are cheap or 
easy since you’d be looking at a Windows machine running to serve the 
speech.
Not really an option.
There are only a few voices that might run on the PI2 or the 
BBB.
We all know of them and none really match the Google output 
we got use to.
However I think that as Doug mentioned it might be possible 
to support options in any new scripts with the understanding that users would 
have to decide if a given service was worth paying for.
To that end I have located info on pricing for Google 
Translate:
https://cloud.google.com/translate/v2/faq?hl=en#pricing
I have not calculated how many characters a weather script 
might send in a month but I’d be surprised if it hit one million.
Still $20.00 is a bit much.
The other option is the Microsoft translation api.
https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/1899a118-d202-492c-aa16-ba21c33c06cb
It appears if I heard this right you have to create an 
account but then you could get up to two million characters per month 
free.
It might be possible for a club to set up an account and pay 
for more and then allow users to access the service with the club 
key.
I’m no expert on scripts or how this might work but I think 
it might be worth trying the MS route.
I can say that the voices with W7 and up are quite good and 
in W10 close to the best of my Voiceware reading 
voices.
VW’s newest, James, is better than anything I’ve ever heard 
but it has issues for screen reader use.
Keeping in mind that a screen reader user expects a 
completely different set of parameters for quality speech if all you want is 
great output for average listeners over a node clearly MS or Google could handle 
it.
73

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