Re: Any Progress on an AI Related Screen-Reader?

Aaron Chantrill, le ven. 08 août 2025 13:04:12 -0400, a ecrit:
> 
> On 8/8/25 10:27, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > ...When the tts is a separate program, then speech-dispatcher module config
> > > > file will detect it.
> > > > 
> > > > > So usually I have to create a
> > > > > custom module based on the generic module.
> > > > It's another way of connecting to external synths. It's not the
> > > > recommended way
> > > Which is?
> > The documented way: a module specific to the synth, which knows how to
> > drive it in a more controlled way than just executing a command.
> > 
> I haven't seen a module specific for piper-tts yet.

It is called cxxpiper.

piper itself is not packaged in Debian, though (again, problem of
upstream that does not really help with it), so there is currently no
Debian package for the cxxpiper module. You can however build & install
it yourself.

As always, contribution welcome to help with integration of this.

Samuel