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

[Fernando Botelho <Fernando Botelho F123 org>]

Hi everyone,

Any help is most welcome with this. It is quite important for our latest 
project where we want to make Raspberry Pi computers easily usable by 
the blind.

Thanks,

Fernando


On 07/16/2018 05:53 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
> 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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