Some novels that I want to read don’t have audiobooks so I’m looking for a foss text to speech software that help with this.

  • antidote101@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Do you have any idea about their top speeds? I’m looking for a real fast reader but also want a UI.

    I got very use to cocoa speech synthesis on Mac and Windows readers feel slow in comparison

    • Samuel Proulx@rblind.com
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      7 months ago

      If you use Bookworm and use the built-in support for espeak, you can get up to 600 words per minute or so. Dectalk can go well over 900 words per minute. As far as I know, cocoa tops out at around 500 words per minute. So all of the options accept piper should be fine for you.