Hi y’all!
v0.1.0 of my portable text to speech device software was released!
Information about it can be found at https://git.ka-so.me/kasanwa-solane/portable-tts

Why did I make this?
I made it as a tool for my personal accessibility toolbox. There’s times that, for various reasons, I struggle with speech, but am expected to speak aloud or that speech is the modality for communication most useful in said context. This allows me to produce speech in a recognizable facsimile of my voice by typing it on a dedicated device.

Why a dedicated device?
Sometimes, I’m in situations where smartphones are disallowed, as well as any device with an integrated camera or microphone. A dedicated accessibility device that deliberately does not have those input modalities is much more acceptable in those spaces.

Everyone is encouraged to boost this post and/or share the link elsewhere. I want the people who might have a use case for this device to be able to find it.

#accessability #augmentativeAdaptiveCommunication #textToSpeech #speechSynthesis #DIY