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I am a part of the Talon community mentioned here, use Orca, have contributed to the Rust atspi bindings and feel like I know Linux accessibility quite well. It is true to in Wayla…

Awesome work! Often times in the TTS space, human-similarity is given way too much emphasis at the expense of hurting user access. Frankly as long as a voice is clear and you liste…

I am learning Mandarin but found that I often want a free, offline, and fast way to hear the pronunciation of Chinese characters I don't know, regardless of what app I am in. • I w…

WebGPU actually generates the speech entirely in the browser. Web Speech is great too, but less practical if the model is complicated to set up and integrate with the speech API on…

Fantastic work. My dream would be to use this for a browser audiobook generator for epubs. I made a cli audiobook generator with Piper [0] that got some traction and I wanted to po…

I don't think that is the case but I could be wrong. My eyes do not feel dry at all and drops or hot washclothes haven't made much difference. Maybe that compress you speak of is b…

Are there any communities of others online dealing with general eye strain? Or other blogs / videos that have helped others? I have had chronic eye pain for a while now and could r…

That appears to be a subscription service. Surely there must be something using piper or another offline TTS program that works for free?

Perhaps off topic, not sure, but does anyone have opinions on the easiest way to add bilingual TTS? I am trying to make Mandarin language learning decks and having free automated T…

I am a data engineer and do a lot of open source work writing API proxies over scientific APIs to present them as standardized formats [0] with better discoverability. I don't have…

Does this program allow linking the same file to different locations on MacOS vs Linux? I have a few config files like the vscode settings.json that end up in different paths but h…

Anki, audiobook apps, better TTS, basic text browsing on the internet, notes apps, etc.

There is so much market disruption potential for e-readers. Every one has a pretty big tradeoff if you are looking to use the e-reader as a general study tool (i.e. using it with A…

Is anyone using graph databases or sparql for these sorts of use cases? sparql is so powerful but not sure if there is enough metadata with ethereum for it to be useful.

Issues should be fixed now in the latest release.

For what it is worth, I still listen to and love human-read audiobooks! However, it is particularly useful to have an AI option for books that are too niche for there to be an ince…

Thank you for the feedback and I'm sorry you had those issues. I cannot replicate at the moment on Ubuntu 24.04 but will check back on this. I presume it is something simple going …

Yeah unfortunately I am not sure about the Apple Watch. On iOS I personally use BookPlayer [0] and find it easy to transfer mp3 files via USB. I think there are cloud sync options …

Thank you! Wouldn't a website interface then make it competing with and thus inferior to solutions like those from 11elevenlabs? I am not opposed to creating a SaaS offering, but I…

Yeah that is totally fair. In my experience, I feel that after a while your brain starts to tune out some of the inflection differences. Piper models are honestly pretty solid as w…

If you are looking to dedrm ebooks, that can be done via a calibre plugin. For audiobooks, I am not sure.

Thanks! At the moment, I don't think there are any public multispeaker models I am aware of. I could be wrong though!

QuickPiperAudiobook locally generates an mp3 audiobook on Linux with one easy command. It can convert PDFs, epub, mobi, and many more by using ebook-convert. It uses any piper TTS …

Synthesized voices are legitimately a great way to read more and give your eyes a break. I personally prefer just converting a page or book to an audiobook myself locally. The new …