Read Text 0.8.68

All

• Bug fixes and code readability improvements.

• Lexicon updates.

Linux

• Updated localhost network speech platforms.

  • The Mimic3 python library includes a gender table for supported models. You can instruct the program to ignore gender by using auto as the voice in the place of male or female.

  • Enable the OpenTTS network speech synthesis on supported platforms. OpenTTS can use a variety of Linux speech synthesis libraries. You can install OpenTTS using docker on  supported Linux platforms. OpenTTS unifies access to multiple open source text to speech systems and voices for many languages.

  • Handle out of range voice id more consistently across  localhost  speech engines using modulus math.
    (i. e.: handle --language "(SELECTION_LANGUAGE_COUNTRY_CODE)" --voice "FEMALE10" when there are only 6 female voices currently available.)

MacOS

• Fixed a python network speech synthesis regression, so python users can use network speech as a fallback for an unsupported language.

read_text_2023.07.09_23_27a.oxt

Version 0.8.69

Works with Apache OpenOffice 4.1

read_text_2023.07.09_23_27.oxt

Version 0.8.68

Works with LibreOffice 7 and OpenOffice.org 3.4