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1. Voxin + Cerence TTS
2. Voxin + IBM TTS
1. Voxin + Cerence TTS
Here are the known current limits of the integration of Cerence TTS, Vocalizer Embedded in Voxin.
- for x86_64 and arm architectures,
- compatible with Speech-Dispatcher (version > 0.7),
- compatible with a previous installation of voxin (version >= 2.0),
- only for UTF-8 texts,
- limited set of parameters (language, speed, volume, pitch),
- not yet compatible with Emacspeak,
- no support yet for dictionaries or annotations,
- cannot automatically switch yet from one language to another one.
2. Voxin + IBM TTS
Known current limits of the integration of IBM TTS in Voxin.
* 32 bits / 64 bits architecture
The voice synthesis is a 32 bits library.
An automatic installation for 64 bits distributions is available.
* Known issues
Some words can crash the voice synthesis. The known words are:
- US English package: "c a e s u r e",
- German package: "d a g e - g e n" or "d a n e - b e n".
* The voice synthesis depends on an obsolete external library
An old libstdc++ library is included in voxin.