27 June 2021: Voxin 3.3rc5
Compatibility of the Vocalizer Embedded voices on Raspberry Pi OS 64 bits (and still 32 bits), graphical install (on demand, beta release, for Debian based distro) and others enhancements or fixes...
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Skip this messageCompatibility:
- Orca and speech-dispatcher (versions 0.9.0 to 0.10.2)
- x86_64 for Vocalizer Embedded or IBM TTS
- ARM (v7-a, v8-a) for Vocalizer Embedded
Voxin 3.3rc5 embeds one of the 400 voices of Vocalizer Embedded or IBM TTS for several GNU/Linux distributions.
The objective is to have more TTS choices for Orca, Emacspeak and possibly the console based screen readers on various architectures.
- Expected schedule
- third trimester of 2022: new user dictionary (regex based), annotations, compatibility with Emacspeak
Object
Voxin is an easily installable add-on which provides text-to-speech to blind users of GNU/Linux.
From version 2.0, Voxin is compatible with much more distributions (and their family: derivatives, parent distro).
The included speech dispatcher modules work with speech-dispatcher version >= 0.7.1 .
The last tested distributions are displayed below. Much more should be compatible.
- Arch Linux (June 2021)
- Debian 10, 11 (sid)
- Gentoo (December 2020)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed (June 2021)
- Raspberry Pi OS (June 2021)
- Slint 14.2.1.2 (June 2021)
- Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 21.04
Voxin 3.3rc5 is compatible with Emacspeak (IBM TTS), Fenrir, Orca/Speech-Dispatcher, SBL.
The installation of Emacspeak and Voxin (Viavoice Outloud) is facilitated by the emacspeak voxin installer compatible Emacspeak 53.0 and more recent versions.
Voxin includes only one language. For installing two languages, you may want to purchase two Voxin packages.
Get Voxin
Oralux.org, not-for-profit association, sells Voxin on-line at low cost (no financial benefit).
The customer will have to accept the licenses: for example, the voice synthesizer must be used with the software components expected by Voxin, on the user's computer and for her own use.
Visit please this page for getting Voxin .
Installation
Note: if you prefer a graphical install, please send a mail to contact at oralux.org to get the beta release of the graphical installer (for Debian based distro)
Otherwise, in a shell terminal, uncompress the archive and launch the installer:
For example, if you have the voxin-enu-3.3rc5.tgz file:
tar -xf voxin-enu-3.3rc5.tgz
and run the voxin installer as root.
For example:
cd voxin-3.3rc5
cd voxin-enu-3.3rc5
If sudo is installed:
sudo --login $PWD/voxin-installer.sh
Otherwise:
su --login -c $PWD/voxin-installer.sh
Update
There is usually one update per each new stable release of the supported distros.
Your initial download link points on the last release of Voxin.
If you have Vocalizer Embedded and IBM TTS voices, just use one of your Vocalizer Embedded links to update Voxin.
To be informed, please subscribe to the Voxin RSS feed or visit the update page.