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

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault hypra fr>]

Hello,

Alex ARNAUD, le lun. 02 juil. 2018 17:44:16 +0200, a ecrit:
> I let Samuel judges if it should be reported against Orca or Speech
> Dispatcher.

Well, there is no reason why pico should be able to understand an
orca-specific string ("voix par défaut pico") :)

So the bug is in Orca, it shouldn't be passing this string to
speech-dispatcher.

That being said, speech-dispatcher should also be fixed into using
the default voice when it can't recognize the voice name. ATM it just
becomes completely silent, which is not a good behavior indeed.

Samuel

> 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.

-- 
Samuel
> No manual is ever necessary.
May I politely interject here: BULLSHIT.  That's the biggest Apple lie of all!
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.)