en-GB/f voice changed

[TodePond]

Seems like the en-GB/f voice recently changed from en-GB-Neural2-A to en-GB-Standard-N. Not sure why this happened, seeing as this line seems to hardcode that specific voice (en-GB-Neural2-A).

I think the old voice is more suited to the kind of music people use with text-to-speech samples, so it would be nice to change it back to something similar. Even one of the standard models would be good, such as en-GB-Standard-A from this page.

(even better for the future would be to be able to choose/cycle between voices)

[ilesinge]

Thanks for your help looking into this!

This seems to be due to that change:
https://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/b_362612430_reminder_1.pdf
en-GB-Standard-A actually is updated too to use directly en-GB-Standard-N

Also: "The new voices might not resemble the original speaker's voice, but they will be of higher quality and sound more natural." Hey Google, that's not what we want !

I don't think there is a simple fix possible for this sadly.

I might get back to use a selfhosted software if I find one to generate the voice on the fly, instead of relying on Google.

[TodePond]

oh right, thanks for the info! yeah getting away from google would be great to be honest — some crappy oldschool text-to-speech would be awesome :)

i'll keep on the lookout and maybe go searching too!