How can I the computer to audibly read what I have typed out to me?
I use Linux Mint 21.1. I make considerable typing errors when I write but I don't see them, so it would be helpful if the machine could read out loud my writings back to me. How can I get this to happen?
I would really prefer to not have to go through an extensive set of disability accommodation steps every single time nor hear the computer tell me everything that is happening on the screen, but I will do it if necessary. I'm hoping there's an app or a LibreOffice button I can push to read only my selected text.
Here's an example of the accessibility screen reader not being helpful for me: https://imgur.com/7QvU9y4
Edit:
So at the advice of @[email protected], I searched for apps using "text-to-speech" and found an app in the software manager called VoiceGen that seems helpful!
$ docker run -it -p 59125:59125 synesthesiam/marytts:5.2
After that you should now be able to access the server at http://localhost:59125 . But then again this may be too much if you dont already need docker in your pc.
That looks promising! Unfortunately, the client link sends me to an insecure site, which I have been taught is something I should avoid, so I don't know what that link it to since I don't go to it.
The stuff in the 2nd link looks good! But in-keeping with this community's purpose, I don't know what a docker is. If you don't mind, could you explain?
You do well not trusting insecure sites - i think the maintainers of marytts just misconfigured their server.
If you don't use it already, maybe you should skip it for now - it's a bit of a can of worms - but in simple terms docker is a technology that bundles a software program with all of the other software that application needs to run, such as an operating system, third-party software libraries, etc.
You could give espeak-ng a try. You can install it via mint's software manager. You can then run it from the terminal like so
$ espeak-ng hello!
The problem with espeak is that the voices are very, very robotic. You could try different voices by using the -v command (espeak-ng -ven-us hello!). You can also list available voices for a language like so: espeak-ng --voices=en.
That's awesome! I really like Google's voice. I'm gonna search around and see if there's a way to get it to work on GUI. Let me know if you know of a way!