[orca-list] Need help getting Mbrola voices to work

[christopher Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>]

Guys,


I hear that people like Kyle, and a few others of you on here have 
gotten the Mbrola voices working with Speech-Dispatcher and Orca. I'm 
attemtping to get them working but undoubtedly am doing something wrong. 
I have a theory what, but I'm not entirely sure.


So far, what I've done with Ubuntu 18.04 is:


1. Made sure my system totally was up to date with:


sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get upgrade


2. I installed Mbrola


sudo apt-get install mbrola


Then, I installed the female US voice, and both the male voices


sudo apt-get install mbrola-us1


sudo apt-get install mbrola-us2


sudo apt-get install mbrola-us3


Then, I opened up speechd.conf


sudo gedit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf


I did a find for mbrola, and found the line that says


#AddModule "espeak-mbrola-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-mbrola-generic.conf"


I removed the number sign at the beginning of that line to uncomment 
things. I then saved the file, and exited gedit.


I then typed,

sudo reboot


I know I could have easily enough just restarted Speech-Dispatcher, but 
for some reason, I'm having a brain fart, and can't remember how to, so 
rather than breaking things, I figured, just reboot, and be safe.


Once rebooted, I opened Orca preferences, went to the voice page, and 
under speech synthecizer, I set it to Mbrola generic.


I then went to apply, hit space bar on the apply button, and then lost 
speech entirely.


I suspect that this is because I first need to start the Mbrola service. 
I'm a little unsure how to do that though, or if this is even the issue 
to start with.


Can someone please explain to me where I went wrong, and exactly what 
commands in Terminal need to be executed to make this work?


Chris.