Re: I'm working on an article

On 12/11/25 10:17, Aaron Chantrill wrote:
> I'm working on an article for Linux Magazine. For this article, I'm 
> interested in talking about setting up speech dispatcher with 
> different text to speech engines, like Piper TTS or Coqui TTS. This is 
> based on a question from this mailing list a couple of months ago. I'm 
> hoping to start a series on accessibility issues while deepening my 
> own understanding.

For screen reader users, minimizing audio latency is important. 
Unfortunately,

  the neural network-based TTS systems, including Coqui and Piper, have 
a reputation for producing high latency. This is an important reason why 
screen reader users tend not to use them.

I don't know whether this is improved if you have appropriate GPU 
processing for the neural network models. Piper was unusably slow on my 
machine, but I didn't investigate deeply enough to find out whether it 
was using the GPU.