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Old 10-02-2024, 07:37 AM   #1
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New voice in Calibre
I frequently use "read aloud" when reading the books on my computer.

Today when I started "read aloud" up, it downloaded something (~100mb) and the voice was very different. I assume previously it was using the computers TTS voices, sort of robotic and quite a few mis-pronunciations, but I have been using it for years and was use to its quirks.)

The new voice sounds very human and only a few mis-pronunciations and is Much better.

In checking the site and the "what's new" on the download page, I see Calibre now uses Piper TTS support, and that is the new voice I am hearing.

But I could not find any info on accessing or controlling it in Calibre.

Mostly I would like to change the voice. The female one now is great, but when I am reading a violent war story, I kind of want to hear a man reading it....

Hearing "I unloaded a full clip from the AK-47 into him, shredding his body and spraying blood all over the room behind him" just does not have the same effect when hearing it in a nice delicate female voice.
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Old 10-02-2024, 07:56 AM   #2
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Click the gear icon on the read aloud popup bar and you can select whatever voice you like.
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Old 10-02-2024, 08:09 AM   #3
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LOL. I checked everywhere else but that....

Thanks, found it.
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Old 10-02-2024, 10:50 AM   #4
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Kristen voice is the one i go with for mysteries and i would also use for war. (usa voice) it has the most emotion in it. I hope as it develops. more uk voices will be added. a voice like ava on edge would be nice. but Kovidgoyal i dont think has control over that. anyone use windows 11 does it have more options ?
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Kristen voice is the one i go with for mysteries and i would also use for war. (usa voice) it has the most emotion in it. I hope as it develops. more uk voices will be added. a voice like ava on edge would be nice. but Kovidgoyal i dont think has control over that. anyone use windows 11 does it have more options ?
I've attached an image with the English language voices on my Windows 11 system that are shown when I click on the gears icon.
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Click the gear icon on the read aloud popup bar and you can select whatever voice you like.
https://github.com/dnhkng/GlaDOS/tree/main/models

And I'm glad we're allowed to replace an existing voice in calibre cache folder.

I did that just for the lolz
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Ah, I remember Portal 1 played it many moons ago.
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I've attached an image with the English language voices on my Windows 11 system that are shown when I click on the gears icon.
Thanks for replying. I am on windows 10 . My computer doesn't meet the windows 11 requirements. I had heard windows 11 had more options for voices but that must be for accessibility program
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Hmm, where are the speech files stored on my computer?
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Hmm, where are the speech files stored on my computer?
on Windows they're in

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\calibre-cache\piper-voices
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Ah, I remember Portal 1 played it many moons ago.
last game I played was NFS Hot Pursuit (2010)

I've watched some Portal 1 videos on youtube and it seemed quite amusing
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