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.
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