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

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

I let Samuel judges if it should be reported against Orca or Speech 
Dispatcher.

IMO, It shouldn't be possible to have a silent voice in this case.

Best regards,
Alex.

Le 02/07/2018 à 11:58, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Le 02/07/2018 à 08:37, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> In the Orca Preferences GUI, go to the Voices tab and in the person
> drop-down list, instead of "voice by default pico (<lang>)", choose one
> of the proposed voices. This Works Here (TM).
>
> My assumption is that if instead I choose "voice by default (fr)" as I
> see in ~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf:
> "name": "voix par d\u00e9faut pico"
> that makes then pico module unhappy, as it says in:
> /dev/shm/didier/speech-dispatcher/log/pico.log:
> Cannot create a new pico engine (-13): name undefined: voice definition voix par défaut pico
>
> If I choose one of the listed voices instead like virginie(fr), in
> ~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf I see:
> "name": "virginie",
> and that makes pico happy.
>
> Should I file an issue with speech-dispatcher or orca?
>
> As an aside, in Slint the danger is not so big as the user can still
> have speech in console mode ;)
> ...And anyway pico is not yet officially provided in Slint.
>
> Have a good day,
>
> Didier
>
> PS context:
> orca-3.28.1
> speech-dispatcher from git commit @ 3e2e409
> svox 1.0+git20130326_8, build directory:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/next/source/svox
> By the way, thanks to B Watson (in cc) and feel free to
> take his modifications of the man page for pico2wave:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/next/source/svox/pico2wave.1
> As you can check, all the Debian patches are applied top this package.