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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">So what TTS do they use?<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:16:44 -0500<br>From: w0kgw3@gmail.com<br>To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] TTS translation options<br><br><div dir="ltr">Doug,<div><br></div><div>There's a way to do all the weather stuff in Asterisk, <a href="http://www.nerdvittles.com" target="_blank">www.nerdvittles.com</a> has all the scripts and tutorials to get there, and they are available for use.</div><div><br></div><div>Might be an option to integrate, as we are already using asterisk.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="ecxgmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>Joel<br>W0KGW<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Neil k8it <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:k8it@cac.net" target="_blank">k8it@cac.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><u></u>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Chris,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Being legally blind I purchased a voice for my RPI, so I
can hear the WX scripts etc.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">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?</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">BTW speech to text would make for some fantastic allstar
scripts</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Thanks<br>73 Neil Sablatzky K8IT<br>Allstar Node
41838 KITLINK<br>Allstar Node 42087 KITLINK HUB<br>IRLP Node exp0068<br>Echolink
K8IT-L<br>WIRES-X K8IT 11479 Room 21479</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="wb9rsq@gmail.com" href="mailto:wb9rsq@gmail.com" target="_blank">Chris Zenchenko</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 03, 2015 5:07 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a> </div><span>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [arm-allstar] TTS translation options</div></span></div></div>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Not to beat a dead horse but the loss of <span>tts</span> for the weather scripts has been a major frustration for
me.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">I spoke with Doug, Wa3DSP the other evening and mentioned I
had been digging in to options.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">I can live with poor but people in my office freak out when
hearing even the better voices I have available.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Not really an option.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">There are only a few voices that might run on the PI2 or the
BBB.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">We all know of them and none really match the Google output
we got <span>use</span> to.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">To that end I have located info on pricing for Google
Translate:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a href="https://cloud.google.com/translate/v2/faq?hl=en#pricing" target="_blank">https://cloud.google.com/translate/v2/faq?hl=en#pricing</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Still $20.00 is a bit much.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">The other option is the Microsoft translation <span>api</span>.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a href="https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/1899a118-d202-492c-aa16-ba21c33c06cb" target="_blank">https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/1899a118-d202-492c-aa16-ba21c33c06cb</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">I’m no expert on scripts or how this might work but I think
it might be worth trying the MS route.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">I can say that the voices with W7 and up are quite good and
in W10 close to the best of my <span>Voiceware</span> reading
voices.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">VW’s newest, James, is better than anything I’ve ever heard
but it has issues for screen reader use.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">73<u></u><u></u></p>
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