Re: [orca-list] is this an orca bug? changing speech-dispatcher's support for espeak's varients doesn't enable the varients to show up

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Vinux will probably get the new speech-dispatcher if they don't have it
already. The one thing they don't have is a lot of varients. Espeak does
come with some, but sonar uses espeak ng, which is an espeak fork
created by reece dunn, the guy who does espeak for android, and he ships
the nvda varients along with espeak. I'm not sure if vinux will ever
switch over to that. I think they, and all other linux distros should
mostly because espeak itself doesn't seem likely ever to get further
updates. I'm not at all sure what's become of jonathan duddington, but I
just checked and espeak itself hasn't been updated since april of last
year. But trying to get linux distros to switch is ... a lot of work.
They all seem to want you to package it for them and I just don't have
that kind of time. You can easily download espeak varients and place
then in /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/!v, and they'll show up for use.
First of course you have to turn on varients in speech-dispatcher, see
my previous message for how to do that, then restart orca and
speech-dispatcher. I'd be happy to attach the varients that espeak ng
comes with and send it to you off list if you want them.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Vojtěch Šmiro wrote:
> Hello.
>
>
> Is some way to use it in Vinux? I would like to see more Espeak variants.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Vojta.
>
>
> Dne 14.8.2016 v 16:37 kendell clark napsal(a):
> > hi all
> > Steps to reproduce. Make sure you are running speech dispatcher 0.8.5.
> > Then enable espeak's varient support by editing
> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf or espeak-ng.conf, whichever
> > you're using. Change " espeak-list-voice-varients" from 0 to 1, then
> > save and close. Then kill speech-dispatcher with killall
> > speech-dispatcher. What should happen is speech-dispatcher will restart
> > and orca will have several thousand more voices to choose from. That
> > doesn't seem to happen. I've already restarted orca to see if that might
> > fix the problem. It's possible speech-dispatcher now has proper varient
> > support and orca just needs to be updated to support it, I'm not sure.
> > If this is a speech-dispatcher bug, I apologize for the noise, but I'm
> > not sure. Can anyone else confirm? This happens with orca master  and
> > stable.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org