Dispose of speech status file locks after a crash or an unexpected system reboot.
Improve readability and update code.
Update English default piper-tts English lexicons.
If you install the pied speech manager using the latest tar.gz file from the GitHub website in a local directory instead of using a flatpak or snap package manager, the extension can now find the location of the pied speech synthesis resource files.
When using a local docker image of mimic3-server text to speech, ignore voices with improperly installed .onnx speech data.
Use piper-tts by default when available instead of festival.
Show the (SPD_READ_TEXT_PY) option whenever it would produce speech, even if your spd-say text to speech engine does not support the current language.
Update default piper-tts English lexicons.
Fix a delay when displaying the lexicon editor dialog.
read_text_2024.11.12_15.33a.oxt
Version 0.8.91
Works with Apache OpenOffice 4.1
read_text_2024.11.12_15.33.oxt
Version 0.8.90
Works with LibreOffice 7+ and OpenOffice.org 3.4
Neural voices might not be trained on all words or abbreviations, so you can customize the pronunciation for words that you use frequently.
Pied is a voice manager for Piper-tts. The version released in November, 2024 includes a wider selection of voice models and allows you to set a specific voice variant for the system voice. If you press the triangular play button, you can compare how voices with the same name differ.