Post #775103

2026-01-05 16:25 UTC

The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users: The past year has seen an explosion in new text to speech engines based on neural networks, large language models, and machine learning. But has any of this advancement offered anything to those using screen readers? stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html #ai #tts #llm #accessibility #a11y #screenreaders

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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 19:28

@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca Super important stuff, thanks for the work and review!

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@rmcpantoja@mastodon.social 2026-01-13 16:34

@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca My results shows that a dedicated IPC server performs faster, E.G the synthDriver is ready for use in just 5 seconds; response is good even in longer sentences, but this can be attributed to the 4.2m model I'm using. And when I ran the model through a streaming vocoder, response is surprisingly realtime, suitable for screen reader. As for voice rate, I'm using a modification of the good "audiostretchy" pip package. I can't give more details ATM, but I hope this helps in your research

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@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space 2026-01-06 23:41

@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca I assume you didn't mention the modern efforts with regard to DECtalk due to the legal situation with that source code being about as clear as mud?

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