From: Solomon Peachy via rockbox <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:04:25 -0400

This has been in the works for some time now; I finally made the switch
(from espeak-ng+mbrola) globally last night.

For most languages Piper provides multiple voice options. I tried to
pick the highest "quality" one on offer, but for everything other than
English it was largely a random choice since I personally can't evaluate
how good/correct a language sounds when I don't speak it.

In other words, Non-English voice files need proper testing and
feedback. Italian and Chinese are the only others I've received
feedback on, and that helped settle on the choice of TTS engine+voice.

So, please try the 20240719 (or later) nightly with your language of
choice, and see how that sounds. You can compare it to the 20240718 (or
older) builds in comparison. We can choose the engine (and voice) on a
per-translation basis.

Here are the voice options that Piper currently provides:

  https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/blob/master/VOICES.md

And here are the TTS options/voices we're using on a per-voice basis:

   https://git.rockbox.org/cgit/rockbox.git/tree/tools/builds.pm#n575

Meanwhile, if there are things poorly (or simply not) translated,
please pop over to https://translate.rockbox.org and make corrections!

 - Solomon

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Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libera.chat)

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Received on 2024-07-19