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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Things are of course different if using speechd-up, but I think all I do on arch is change the espeak default 
voice to what ever I want. I have 
certainly not done either thing  
Peter recommends, that will inded work.
I think you should be able to make that espeakup file in /etc/speakup to get system wide prefferences that 
way.
It's been about a year since I've installed arch so don't remember, and perhaps I had to do something else 
I'm not remembering, but don't think so. 
I'll look at a debian installation later/think I still have the UK English voice that was default running 
there, so will change it and see what I have 
to do.
So, to get your  default espeak voice changed just copy which ever voice you like to default. The espeak-data 
directory is found in /usr/share/ or 
in a subdir of /usr/lib on most if not all distros. 
Here is an example using the us English voice, just change to suit your needs.
For 64bit Linux
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-data/voices/
and for 32bit Linux
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/espeak-data/voices/
will be the path to your voice files. You may need to go in to a subdir of voices to get the voice you want. 
Some may be in a less obvious subdir like 
test, others are in asia or europe.
  
So, navigate to which ever of these paths is correct for your system in a console or terminal e.g.
cd /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/espeak-data/voices/
and then
sudo cp en-us default
I do not remember if just logging out and back in to a console is enough to get the new voice, or if you will 
need to reboot your computer, but this can
work for any voice file you like.
Again, in some cases instead of the /usr/lib/... path you will use /usr/share/espeakup-data/voices/..., e.g. 
arch-linux and its deritives.
If you use speechd-up I think there are instructions for changing speakup voice on the Vinux wiki. If I am 
remembering wrong, write back and I can show 
you how to do the change for speechd-up, but I think only Vinux and Ubuntu users are likely to have 
speechd-up. 
Regards,

-- 
     B.H.
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  Peter Vágner wrote:
Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:50:17PM +0200

> 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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