Time  Nick      Message
03:43 MTDiscord <kimapr> there are IRC bridged minetest matrix rooms?
11:59 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> The matrix bridge has been dysfunctional for a while.
12:25 MTDiscord <kimapr> they deleted the bridge because it sucked
16:14 nekobit   is there an open source text-to-speech library?
16:14 nekobit   id like to add TTS to Minetest
16:14 MTDiscord <bastrabun> There's piper, but that's python as far as I know
16:28 pgimeno   there's festival, too
16:28 MTDiscord <warr1024> This is what I use.  I run it in docker containers, since it's a bit sprawling with its dependencies, but it's way lighter than a lot of the heavy AI stuff I've tried, and actually works.
16:28 MTDiscord <warr1024> I found piper to have the best balance between voice quality and actually running and working.
16:30 MTDiscord <warr1024> If you're looking for something lightweight and embeddable, I've gotten surprising mileage out of espeak, and it's much lighter weight than piper or other AI-based ones.  The voice can be grating if you're picky, but I also found it a lot easier to hear above background noise.
16:40 nekobit   What if i dont want quality
16:40 nekobit   i just want to be able to soisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoi
16:46 MTDiscord <kimapr> nekobit: then you use that microsoft voice thing
16:51 nekobit   that's closed source
17:07 MTDiscord <warr1024> if you want to add TTS support directly into the engine, something small and light like whatever espeak does might be your best bet, especially if you have dreams of it someday being considered for merging.
17:12 Noisytoot what does espeak use?
17:16 Mantar    libespeak
17:17 Mantar    I think pico sounds better, for small TTS libraries
17:31 MTDiscord <warr1024> any voice samples from pico out there we can listen to?
17:33 Mantar    https://p.mort.coffee/pqj.wav