[arm-allstar] TTS translation options

[Tim Dysinger]

The Jasper project has a nice list of available TTS and STT services one
could use:

http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/configuration/

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Joel Jameson <w0kgw3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <wb9rsq at gmail.com>
>> *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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