Voxin: News http://voxin.oralux.net Voxin provides yet another text-to-speech to blind users of GNU/Linux. en Fix for installation on RPI4 32 bits An issue in common/init.inc still prevents the installation of Voxin 3.4 on Debian ARM 32 bits (e.g. RPI4 with Raspberry Pi OS 32 bits).

The previous fix for 3.3rc6 can be applied and is available on GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oralux/voxin-installer/master/src/tools/fix_rpi_32bits_for_3.3rc6.sh

This script should be copied and launched under the local voxin installation directory.

For example :

cd voxin-3.4

cd voxin-american-english-zoe-ml-premium-3.4

./fix_rpi_32bits_for_3.3rc6.sh

]]> 22 Dec 2023 22:55 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20231222 Premium voice An High quality voice can now be replaced by the corresponding Premium quality voice if it exists. To download it append to your link these 10 characters "&v=premium" (the ampersand character and v=premium ).

]]> 25 Nov 2023 19:08 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20231125 New voices, new qualities (premium, multilingual support,...) https://voxin.oralux.org/voice.php
Languages receiving these additions
Chinese Mandarin and Hong Kong Cantonese
Czech
American, Australian, British and Indian English
Canadian or Metropolitan French
German
Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Mexican Spanish
Swedish
Thai
]]> 12 Nov 2023 12:00 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20231112 Emacspeak installer: compatibility Debian 12 https://github.com/Oralux/emacspeak_voxin_install/archive/refs/tags/56.0-1.tar.gz Minor fix related to the name of the emacs package.

This installer still builds by default emacspeak 56.0

https://github.com/Oralux/emacspeak_voxin_install/archive/refs/tags/56.0-1.tar.gz

]]> 22 Oct 2023 11:04 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20231022 Version 3.4 Vocalizer Embedded voices upgraded to Cerence TTS Embedded 23.03.

Install the speech dispatcher voxin module (0.11.5) if the distribution does not provide it (for x86_64, armv7l, aarch64).

Note: the beta version of the graphical installer is discarded for now.

Fixes:

Fix related to the 'lower than' character in SSML mode.

Fix for text between backquotes (Voxin+Vocalizer Embedded).

Installer: fix for root install using incomplete env variables; and add a newline to the last displayed message.

Installer: fix for Debian ARM 32 bits.

]]> 16 Oct 2023 13:00 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20231016 Suspension of the sale of Voxin+IBM TTS Voxin + IBM TTS is removed from the purchasing possibilities, because of the very low number of runtimes that we have left. 27 Aug 2023 22:40 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20230827 Fix for installation on Raspberry Pi 32 bits An issue in common/init.inc prevents the installation of Voxin 3.3rc6 on Debian ARM 32 bits (e.g. Raspberry Pi OS 32 bits).

A fix is available on GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oralux/voxin-installer/master/src/tools/fix_rpi_32bits_for_3.3rc6.sh

This script should be copied and launches under the local voxin installation directory.

For example :

cd voxin-3.3rc6

cd voxin-enu-3.3rc6

./fix_rpi_32bits_for_3.3rc6.sh

]]> 29 Apr 2023 13:47 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20230429 Version 3.3rc6 Possibility to install voxin as regular user. For example, a voice can be installed under the user's account as well as its speech dispatcher module (for speech-dispatcher >= 0.11).

Compatibility with LibreELEC and its screen reader (service.xbmc.tts)

For Voxin+Vocalizer Embedded:

Fix erroneous speed increase when switching to another speech-dispatcher client.

New management of inserted indexes and pronunciation of single character.

]]> 22 Aug 2022 22:38 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20220822 Version 3.3rc5 Compatibility with Raspberry Pi OS 64 bits (and still 32 bits)

voxin.ini: add parameter voiceName to indicate the default voice. Help speechdup to select a voice when several Voxin voices have been installed. More details: README (in paragraph: "voxin.ini configuration file") and voxin.ini .

Fixes:

Fix a critical issue (hang, no more response) when a web page included Emojis. Observed with Voxin+Vocalizer Embedded, Speech Dispatcher 0.9.0 or 0.9.1 .

Expected encoding of the text supplied to eciAddText(): by default, this expected charset is UTF8 in SSML mode, or otherwise the charset is the one associated to the text-to-speech (UTF-8 for Vocalizer Embedded, latin1 or others according to the IBM TTS synthesis).

Fix hang on incomplete multi-byte in an UTF8 text.

Fix concerning the voxin module of Speech Dispatcher 0.9.0 or 0.9.1: the text-to-speech stopped sometimes during 10 seconds.

Installation

To update Voxin, use one of your download links to get the last version. If you have Vocalizer Embedded and IBM TTS voices, just use one of your Vocalizer Embedded links to update Voxin.

A 'graphical installer' for Debian based distributions can be downloaded with your usual download link appended with the two characters "&g" (that is the ampersand character and g for graphical).

]]> 28 Jun 2021 01:30 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20210628 Installing Voxin without typing command lines This beta release simply provides a Debian package which should help to install Voxin in a graphical desktop.

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, via Firefox or the file browser, by selecting the Voxin package in the Downloads directory.

This 'graphical installer' can be downloaded with your usual download link appended with the two characters & g (that is the ampersand character and g for graphical).

]]> 11 May 2021 23:50 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20210511 Shorter RSS Feed The RSS feed is reduced to its very last announces. It appeared that due to the restart of the website, all the previous news were redisplayed by RSS clients. The old feed is renamed as rss.xml.old 29 Apr 2021 12:30 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20210429 Audio samples The website supplies again an audio sample for each Vocalizer Embedded voice. 26 Apr 2021 19:01 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20210426 Voxin website up The distribution of Voxin resumes after a major incident that affected our host provider. The Voxin website is globally available again. Sorry for the long wait. 25 Apr 2021 00:26 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20210425 https://voxin.oralux.net Sorry, the distribution of Voxin is currently suspended due to a major incident affecting our host provider. The website will be progressively restored in April. For urgent demands, the email remains still available at contact at oralux.org. 11 Mar 2021 08:00 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20210311 (Vocalizer Embedded) Fix extension of tarballs 3.3 rc4 https://voxin.oralux.net The Voxin+Vocalizer tarballs have been erroneously released uncompressed. These files should have the tar extension instead of tgz. Using "tar -xf" will work whichever the tarball is compressed or not; however other tools can be misled by the erroneous tgz extension and fail to extract files. The voxin+Vocalizer 3.3rc4 tarballs have been renamed (tgz extension replaced by tar). The forthcoming releases will be compressed and the tgz extension will reappear. 17 Jan 2021 17:00 +0100 Emacspeak installer: compatibility Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 https://github.com/Oralux/emacspeak_voxin_install/archive/49.0-7.tar.gz Fix the list of needed dependencies.

It still builds by default emacspeak 49.0 or the current development version

https://github.com/Oralux/emacspeak_voxin_install/archive/49.0-7.tar.gz

]]> 17 Jan 2021 16:30 +0100 Version 3.3rc4 https://voxin.oralux.net Compatibility with distributions supplying Speech Dispatcher 0.10.2:

The Speech Dispatcher voxin output module is either already provided by the distribution (starting with speech-dispatcher 0.10.2) or otherwise will be installed from the tarball (voxin-speechd-conf and/or voxin-speechd packages).

Tested on Arch Linux, Debian sid, Fedora, openSUSE, Slint... Full list in README.

Fixes:

Gentoo & Fedora: install to /usr/lib64 for 64 bits architectures.

(Vocalizer Embedded) Fix misplaced sound icon in capital mode.

(IBM TTS) Fix spelling regressions introduced in version 3.2. With punctuation level set to none, the original spelling was altered when a punctuation character preceded a capital letter.

Installer: after user's authorization, check if the voxin module must be added to the speechd.conf files:

/home/*/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf

/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf

Voxin must be added if there are uncommented AddModule lines in speechd.conf and none of them concerns voxin.

Checked with speech-dispatcher 0.9.1 (Gentoo)

Uninstall: remove /opt/oralux, /var/opt/oralux

To update Voxin, use one of your download links to get the last version. If you have Vocalizer Embedded and IBM TTS voices, just use one of your Vocalizer Embedded links to update Voxin.

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