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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I don't own any Cereproc Voices for Windows so I can't offer any real insights. A couple of questions ...
Some newer Voices now have an online component and will only work if you're connected to the internet. Is it possible that your Cereproc Voices do this? That might slow things down. Ivona and the standard Windows Voices run entirely from your local disk. My current version of Win10 does have some new online Voices. I don't know how (or if) calibre could ever be made to 'see' them but they do work in MS Edge's Readaloud function as long as there's an active internet connection.
Another common culprit when things run slow is antivirus software.
You could try temporarily disconnecting from the internet and disabling all antivirus activity and see what happens. Did all your problems start after you installed the Cereproc Voices?
I think if you want to get to the bottom of these problems you're going to need to strip everything back to basics. At the moment you've got multi-layered potential problems - this plugin on top of calibre on top of 2 different types of 3rd-party Voices, both of which were probably sold as fit-for-purpose in a 3rd-party 32-bit app, TextAloud, and nowhere else.
If this was happening on my PC this is what I'd do: - Temporarily uninstall all 3rd-party Voices and forget about this 'TTS to MP3' plugin for the moment. Make sure that calibre Viewer's Readaloud is now working OK with the MS Voices.
- Then reinstall a single Ivona Voice. Does calibre Readaloud still work? or are you now getting that OSError you initially reported?
If the basic calibre Readaloud is failing then this plugin has no chance of working. At this point we can ask Kovid the calibre guru if he has any suggestions. |
Hi Jackie, thanks for the reply. Ivona's voices don't work with either Readaloud or the plugin. A month ago they were working perfectly, but not anymore. As for Cereproc's voice you are right, if I am not connected to the internet it does not work well. That must be the speed problem when switching to MP3. The Microsoft voices work perfectly in Readaloud, but after uninstalling the Ivona voices and reinstalling them I have the same problem both in Readaloud and in the Plugin with the Ivona voices. I would appreciate if you can check it since the Ivona voices are for both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. In any case if you need the Ivona installation files I can send them to you if you give me an email via Wetransfer so you can check it yourself. Best regards. Thank you very much.