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retiredbiker · 11-20-2023, 05:28 PM

Running 6.28.1 (and prior) on Ubuntu 23.10 (and prior) I was never able to get the text to speech working well in the Viewer. It sort of worked, but was just about unintelligible. I spent hours on it and finally gave up.

Today I saw a post for Pied, a solution to install Piper and get it working with Speech Dispatcher. I gave it a try, and now the Viewer Read-aloud feature works perfectly for me. And I got several very pleasant voices. (Note, this is Beta, but I have had no problems.)

If other Linux users want to try it:

https://pied.mikeasoft.com and installation at https://snapcraft.io/pied

The author is on Mastodon: @mikesheldon@octodon.social

11-20-2023, 05:28 PM	#1
retiredbiker Addict Posts: 389 Karma: 1638210 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kindle KB, Oasis, Pop_Os!, Jutoh, Kobo Forma	Read-aloud on Linux: Pied solution Running 6.28.1 (and prior) on Ubuntu 23.10 (and prior) I was never able to get the text to speech working well in the Viewer. It sort of worked, but was just about unintelligible. I spent hours on it and finally gave up. Today I saw a post for Pied, a solution to install Piper and get it working with Speech Dispatcher. I gave it a try, and now the Viewer Read-aloud feature works perfectly for me. And I got several very pleasant voices. (Note, this is Beta, but I have had no problems.) If other Linux users want to try it: https://pied.mikeasoft.com and installation at https://snapcraft.io/pied The author is on Mastodon: @mikesheldon@octodon.social Last edited by retiredbiker; 11-20-2023 at 05:31 PM.