Let's talk about Linux

Hi
I was wondering what voice synthesizers do you get for linux?
thanks.

I think mainly ESpeak, that's literally the only one I know. But interested if there is anything else anyhow good.

I think you can get RHVoice on Linux, and somehow also Vocalizer.

Can you get Eloquence on Linux?

Espeak, espeak-ng, vocalizer, eloquence, RHVoice, piperTTS, festival, and DeckTalk.

Nice.
I know you have espeak by default, but I'm guessing I think the rest of them are downloadable speech synthesizers?

Hi
I was wondering, what midi sound fonts do you get in the linux operating system? I heard there are a couple sound fonts.
thanks.

Oh? Eloquence? How would you do that?

Honestly if I could, I'd use Kali linux for a wsl, although I'm using Ubuntu for a VPS server.
Why Kali? Because back in that time I was a lot interested to learn about different cyber security tools and those, stuff. And because Kali linux on WSL has something nice which allows you to run a vnc with GUI using kex, but because of the audio issues you can't use it for long time because after some time, you won't hear anything. I've tried that multiple times and I don't know if anyone has a solution for that.
Of course Kali linux is not for servers or those stuff, I just like to experiment with it on wsl.

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I'd directly start off with a question. What distribution do you use? I use Ubuntu 22.

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The only 3 MIDI sound fonts that I know that is a part of Linux is the FluidR3, the general user font and the SGM font. There are probably others but these are the three I know.

you can if it is the voxin thang on bhp

linux is wors thin dos

voxin has stopped providing eloquence voices from what I know and it has mainly been providing vocalizer voices that you have to pay for just like the tyflotecnhia thing for NVDA. I've Briefly been experimenting with diferent distros myself. Although if I want to start out I'd probably use mint, which I do have on a VM but haven't touched in a while. What are some other beginner-friendly distros I could use alongside mint?

I used Linux as a second system from 2017 to 2020.
I had a distro called Sonar. Ahhh, good times when a lot of Unix things was accessible. :)
Later i used Antergos.
In 2025 i tried to install Jenux and Coconut but noone of them can be installed succesfully on my really old HP with Core 2 duo and 4 gb ram.
Now? Only Debian on server for all server things, and RPI OS on RPI which i use for some streaming, audio feed via TT server on local network and other things for fun and to test something.
-- (rudolf):
I'd directly start off with a question. What distribution do you use? I use Ubuntu 22.
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I tried it once, but it was just way too complicated for a simple person like me. I love tech but linux was just too dificult to learn.

This was me as well. Tried linux once, found it to be a touch too complex and gave it up.
-- (ferre):
I tried it once, but it was just way too complicated for a simple person like me. I love tech but linux was just too dificult to learn.

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Linux is great as a live image for rescue.

I used arch btw for a long time. It was the best i have done. But sadly, games are not so good on linux

I use arch BTW, in a VM

Gaming on Linux is doable, especially if the game runs via proton. My workaround was to make a script that ran NVDA and then launched the game, then added that script to my steam launch options. worked like a treat every time, I could run lethal company and the access mod would pick it up, and later the same trick worked with Stardew when something in glibc fucked up its ability to do multi player on the native Linux version. If you want a distro that's easy to get started with, Fedora is a good choice. Gives you up to date software and an up to date Orca, along with graphical ways to do pretty much everything. Sadly I don't use Linux anymore, although I do have it in a VM so that I can continue developing my accessibility projects. Orca 50 got on my nerves far too much, and Linux not having software support for certain things was getting in the way of university, and I couldn't read a simple PDF without webkit GTK crapping the bed and doing something annoying and stupid, so I'm now on Mac OS. Turned out it was a way better choice than I initially thought, since I can now run qwen 3.8 flash next locally and get a decent 11 tokens per second out of it, and this is on a 64 GB of ram machine too.