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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>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<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 style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=wb9rsq@gmail.com
href="mailto:wb9rsq@gmail.com">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">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [arm-allstar] TTS translation options</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Not to beat a dead horse but the loss of <SPAN
class=SpellE>tts</SPAN> for the weather scripts has been a major frustration for
me.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I spoke with Doug, Wa3DSP the other evening and mentioned I
had been digging in to options.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I can live with poor but people in my office freak out when
hearing even the better voices I have available.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Not really an option.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>There are only a few voices that might run on the PI2 or the
BBB.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>We all know of them and none really match the Google output
we got <SPAN class=SpellE>use</SPAN> to.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>To that end I have located info on pricing for Google
Translate:<o:p></o:p></P>
<P
class=MsoNormal>https://cloud.google.com/translate/v2/faq?hl=en#pricing<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Still $20.00 is a bit much.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The other option is the Microsoft translation <SPAN
class=SpellE>api</SPAN>.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P
class=MsoNormal>https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/1899a118-d202-492c-aa16-ba21c33c06cb<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I’m no expert on scripts or how this might work but I think
it might be worth trying the MS route.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I can say that the voices with W7 and up are quite good and
in W10 close to the best of my <SPAN class=SpellE>Voiceware</SPAN> reading
voices.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>VW’s newest, James, is better than anything I’ve ever heard
but it has issues for screen reader use.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>73<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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