Re: [orca-list] TTS choices? Don't worry, not Voxin

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

The documentation for using a TTS other than espeak is really scanty. I 
spent Friday night trying to get mbrola working on my machine at home. 
Not only did I never get it to work, I never got it back the way it was 
before. I ended up re-installing linux.

Two things that really puzzled me:

#1 The relationship between orca and the speech-dispatcher config file, 
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. It appears that a lot of stuff is 
commented out in that file that orca still uses.

#2 Where orca keeps it's settings. I probably should have backed up 
~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf before messing with it. When I 
lost speech, I couldn't restore from a backup and I couldn't figure out 
how to edit it to get orca to work again. But that's par for the course, 
I wouldn't expect to manually fix a settings file. The weird thing was 
that when I deleted that file, and then went in and re-created my 
settings in orca preferences, it didn't re-create that file. What I 
ended up doing was to ssh to another machine where orca was still 
working and copying it back. From then on, judging by the modification 
time stamp on the file, modifications via orca preferences changed that 
file. So apparently, if you delete the user-settings.conf file, orca 
does something else with your preferences.





On 07/02/2018 01:37 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Le 29/06/2018 à 20:49, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> > All these work with Orca + Speech Dispatcher. There are others that I
> > didn't try, that can be used with Speech Dispatcher and, I assume, Orca.
>
> How do you make Pico working on Speech Dispatcher and Orca from the GUI? 
> Last time I've checked selecting pico result in non-speech on Orca so it 
> is really dangerous if you rely only on speech synthesis.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex.
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