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Moonbase59 · Yesterday, 04:44 AM

So I’m using Calibre 8.9 on EndeavourOS/Cinnamon (rolling Arch-based distro), and I’m experiencing some oddities with the viewer’s TTS output.

I have a working speech-dispatcher output, using a selected set of Piper voices (English and German), and things like spd-say »This is a test.«, or Foliate work nicely.

Now in Calibre’s ebook viewer, when selecting »Read Aloud«, it immediately started downloading a voice called libritts (United States) [High Quality]. I can also download other Piper voices.

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Where are these stored? I don’t really want to download & store all voices I use twice.

When using the suggested The Piper Neural Engine, a reading progress is shown in the book (blue highlight) but I get no sound, whatever output device I select.

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When switching to my already-installed The Speech Dispatcher Engine, I get a list of my installed voices, can select one, and it reads the book text in the selected voice—but without any indication of position, and no page turning.

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Would be nice if this can be solved, preferably with the reading progress shown.

Yesterday, 04:44 AM	#1
Moonbase59 Addict Posts: 231 Karma: 1000244 Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: Germany Device: Tolino Vision 5, Tolino Tab 8", Pocketbook Era (16GB)	Calibre 8.9: TTS output, and where are TTS files stored? So I’m using Calibre 8.9 on EndeavourOS/Cinnamon (rolling Arch-based distro), and I’m experiencing some oddities with the viewer’s TTS output. I have a working speech-dispatcher output, using a selected set of Piper voices (English and German), and things like spd-say »This is a test.«, or Foliate work nicely. Now in Calibre’s ebook viewer, when selecting »Read Aloud«, it immediately started downloading a voice called libritts (United States) [High Quality]. I can also download other Piper voices. Where are these stored? I don’t really want to download & store all voices I use twice. When using the suggested The Piper Neural Engine, a reading progress is shown in the book (blue highlight) but I get no sound, whatever output device I select. When switching to my already-installed The Speech Dispatcher Engine, I get a list of my installed voices, can select one, and it reads the book text in the selected voice—but without any indication of position, and no page turning. Would be nice if this can be solved, preferably with the reading progress shown. Last edited by Moonbase59; Yesterday at 04:58 AM.