Re: [orca-list] OT how to change speakup voice

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,

There are two ways I know of on how to make espeakup use different 
eSpeak voice.

- You can kill espeakup and start it from your console as follows...
espeakup -–default-voice=cs

- Or you can create a file
~/.speakup/espeakup
and put the following into that file
default_voice=cs

I don't know how espeakup is started on debian so I can't advice what to 
tweak to make it persistent.

On Arch linux I have copied /usr/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service 
into /etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service
Then I have modified ExecStart line inside that file to include 
--default-voice parameter,
Finally I have refreshed systemd services and recreated the simlinks 
needed to start it on boot.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl disable espeakup
sudo systemctl enable espeakup
sudo systemctl restart espeakup

P.S. speakup is not fully utf-8 aware so reading central european 
languages with some cli apps is not verry usefull with this setup. It's 
nice for basic system administration and / or rescue though.

Greetings

Peter


On 20.10.2015 at 15:43 Pavel Vlček wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to install Debian non free with speech support enabled. But 
> when I select Czech, I have speakup voice set to English and system 
> dialogs in Czech. Can I change the speakup voice?
> Thanks,
> Pavel V
>
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