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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks Storm.
A patch to solve the problem would be helpful!
--joanie

On 07/18/2018 08:09 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> The problem seems to be that orca isn't really using the default
> settings for the default module. It's passing in a 2 letter language
> code instead of using the default speech-dispatcher language.
>
> When I set the default language to en-us it should be using us1 as the
> default voice, It instead used the default espeak-ng voice which was a
> fallback if it couldn't find the voice. To make sure my theory was
> correct, I installed mbrola-voices-en1 and it started using the english
> (GB) voice. So, if orca could be made to not pass in language requests
> to the default module, then it would just work by setting the language
> in spd. Eventually I want to get all the possible mbrola languages working.
>
> I'm sure Joanie is swamped with orca development stuff and other
> requests, so I may try to take a look at this myself and do a pull
> request. I'm not a python ninja like she is though though, so don't
> expect a miracle or anything, but maybe this is something I can tackle.
> It's nothing complicated like messing around with variants at least.
>
> Thanks,
> Storm
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:34:46AM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have found several issues with orca, speech-dispatcher (abbreviated
> > spd in this message) or both when trying to use the mbrola voices
> > through the espeak-ng-mbrola-generic.conf spd file (using the generic
> > spd module).
> > 1. In the Orca preferences GUI the Person label ends in (<lang>) <lang>
> > being the language code part of $LANG, regardless of the settings of spd
> > 2. In the same drop down list, no other choice than the default is
> > available, even though several MBROLA voices are installed and checked
> > to work with espeak-ng.
> > 3. These settings in /etc/speechd-dispatcher/speechd.conf:
> > DefaultVoiceType  "FEMALE1"
> > DefaultLanguage "fr"
> > should lead to usage of the fr4 mbrola voice, as in
> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/espeak-mbrola-generic.conf I have set:
> > AddVoice        "fr"    "FEMALE1"     "fr4"
> > However, the language used by Orca is the one that corresponds to the
> > language part of the locale set in $LANG., e.g. "fr" for fr_FR.utf8,
> > "en" for en_US.utf8, at least if I keep in espeak-mbrola-generic.conf
> > the default command:
> > GenericExecuteSynth \
> > "espeak-ng -v mb-$VOICE -s $RATE -p $PITCH $PUNCT \'$DATA\'"
> > To get the fr4 voice I have to explicitly set it in this file:
> > GenericExecuteSynth \
> > "espeak-ng -v mb-$VOICE -s $RATE -p $PITCH $PUNCT \'$DATA\'"
> > But this is not an acceptable workaround as then this file would need to
> > be modified every time the user chooses another voice.
> > 4. The spd user settings written by spd-conf are no more effective than
> > the system ones.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Didier
> >
> > On 07/16/2018 10:53 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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