Re: [orca-list] Possible bug with Orca and speech-dispatcher and selecting voices

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello Storm,

I made a diff with ecd75ff that I have installed and updated GenericExecuteSynth accordingly in my Slint 
system.

This new GenericExecuteSynth command make it speak now out of the box (using pulse, will check with libao 
backed by alsa), no need to replace $PLAY_COMMAND anymore, thanks!

I see that there are more languages and voice settings, good!

A small glitch: in the file you attached, the first line is split so there is no # before the second one.

I can't answer yet for the issue you mention as I have just one voice installed.

I will install others voices to try to reproduce.

Just a shot in the dark: in espeak.conf and espeak-ng.conf there is a variable EspeakListVoiceVariants set to 
0 by default.
Maybe include it in espeak-gn-mbrola.conf and set it to 1, just in case?

I take this occasion to remind whoever in concern that a better handling of the variants in speech-dipatcher 
and orca would be nice ;)

Best regards,

Didier 

Le 16/07/2018 à 22:53, Storm Dragon a écrit :
> Howdy all,
>
> I have been working with the espeak-ng-mbrola-generic module for speech-dispatcher, trying to get it 
> working with as many languages as possible. Some of the languages are very similar, e.g en-us or just plain 
> en, pt-br vs play ol' pt, etc.
>
> Everything works great for the most part. If I set the DefaultLanguage  setting in speechd.conf to en-us, 
> and the DefaultModule to espeak-ngmbrola-generic, then spd-say "hello world" uses the propper voice. Also, 
> setting Fenrir to use the default module ifor speech-dispatcher uses the correct boice.
>
> Orca, however, insists on using plain ol espeak-ng with the default en voice. It is set to use the default 
> module (default synth), but something is getting passed through that causes the actual default to not be 
> used.
>
> Attached is the work in progress espeak-ng-mbrola-generic module, so if anyone is curious, you can see for 
> yourself that it works in most places, just not with orca.
>
> Thanks for any help with this,
> Storm
>
>
>
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