Porting the German voice into RHVoice

[winman3000]

there is a project called RHVoice (https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/). It would be very nice if your voices could be ported there, so that RHVoice is finally available in German. Unfortunately I don't have the necessary knowledge for this

There is already an issue for this: RHVoice/RHVoice#24

[thorstenMueller]

Hi @winman3000 ,
thanks for sharing. I can take a closer to check if i can help. Do you know Mimic 3 which offers several local TTS voices for multiple languages including mine ;).

https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/

[winman3000]

Hi Thorsten,

I have not heard or read anything about Mimic yet. I will have a look at it.

I am fully blind and would like to use RHVoice with my screen reader NVDA. There is already a driver from RHVoice for NVDA. Since it is very fast in response time, very small, and hardly needs any big dependencies like Java, RHVoice is more likely for me.

So I would be very happy if you could somehow manage to import your voice there.

[thorstenMueller]

Hi @winman3000,
okay i understand. I will take a closer to look to it but i cannot say when i will find the time to do so. I have read, that Mimic 3 should support screeen readers too, but it is written as "work in progress" so might not work optimal.

I post a link, just in case you want to check it.
https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/mimic-tts/mimic-3#speech-dispatcher

[winman3000]

Hi Thorsten,

Thank you very much for taking care of this problem. I would be very happy if you manage to port it. RHVoice is very fast in response and as I said very small.

Thanks also for the link. Speech-Dispatcher is for Linux. On Windows it is either done via SAPI or a direct driver is written for the respective screen reader like NVDA, JAWS or Supernova.

[BluePixel4k]

Hi @thorstenMueller,
have you already found time to take a closer look into it?
I would also love to see your voice in RHVoice.

[thorstenMueller]

Hi,
to be honest, i haven't found time for it yet, because it's also a topic for which i need some time. But I have it on my todo list.
Wishing you a good start into to the year 2023.

[thorstenMueller]

@BluePixel4k I've commented in the issue on RHVoice for getting help with the first steps.
Let's see if i can be helpful in this topic.