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

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

Yes, likely so. These don't occur very often though, and a cp command is pretty trivial. 
That being said, for someone not expecting this behavior confusion is likely to set in...lol. 
I should add an espeakup file to /etc/speakup and perhaps script its modification or swap as I like to change 
voices once in a while, not to mention the 
ocassional need to change language. 
I usually just read non-English files in the GUI with Orca as changing language is easier/faster there, and 
can be handled on an application specific 
basis which is often more practical as I'm not changing system language, just reading a document, article, 
etc.
One issue is that for sometime now speakupconf only works for root, i.e. saving/reloading  rate, volume, etc. 
ihas no effect when done as a normal user.
This can be worked around, but would be much more of a problem on a multi-user system, e.g. when I have a 
teaching account set up which will not only  
probably be  in Spanish rather than the English that I usually set up for myself, but use very different 
voice rate, and perhaps even slightly different 
volume. 
Part of the speakup-tools, (or is it utils), package is a script to change language, but it did not work last 
time I tried it.  
 talkwith I think it is called, and I think the package is usually if not always called speakup-utils, that's 
its name on Arch anyway.
  

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  Peter Vágner wrote:
Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 07:53:29AM +0200

> One little thing::
> - If you would copy whatewer your prefered voice into the file named
> default, eSpeak will reset it for you during upgrades.
>
> On 20.10.2015 at 23:06 B. Henry wrote:
> > 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,