[orca-list] Fwd: Speech modules

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

I forward to the list this message that James sent me privately, as
someone knowing Ubuntu could certainly be more helpful than me.

If I understand well, James, you are running speechd-up on the
console? Then why does it rely on espeak rather that espeak-ng, as
does Orca? Did you set it as DefaultModule in speechd.conf or
running spd-conf? If the answer is yes, try to replace it by
espeak-ng.


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Hi again Didier

Sorry Yes I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Speakup was running fine until 
about half an hour ago. So yes I have speech in the GUI but nothing on 
the console. i am using 'espeak-ng' at the moment with Orca but I have 
also tried switching to 'espeak' in speechd.conf with no luck.


Running 'systemctl status speechd-up.service' reports taht although 
speechd-up is running there was some failure between it and espeak. 
Fortunately this has not affected Orca.


I have  also tried resetting the audioOutputMethod to libao in 
speechd.conf but I do not think this is strictly necessary. In any 
case,, it did  not work. :)


A fascinating adventure, if a little frustrating. :) I am such a newbie 
lol. maybe one day i will feel brave enough to try Slint, I hope so, but 
I need  to solidify  my understandings first as this thread has shown me 
that   my understanding is faulty.


Thanks

James

On 05/06/2019 20:55, Didier Spaier wrote:
> I wrote "could" but am not sure as that depends on how the software is packaged.
>
> But do you actually mean that you have speech in a graphical environment but not on the console?
>
> Also, please tell us which speech synthesizer is in use by Orca. Check in the Orca Preferences GUI, in the 
> Voice tab.
>
> Again, we need to know what distribution you use to help you more.
>
> On 05/06/2019 21:41, James Austin wrote:
> > Ah ok thanks Didier. I don't think there is an alias but something appears to be there because Orca works. 
> > Now to get Speakup working again. hee heewith
> >
> > On 05/06/2019 20:33, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > > On 05/06/2019 21:20, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Perhaps you have espeak-ng instead.
> > > But even then there could exist a file /usr/bin/espeak linking to
> > > /usr/bin/espeak-ng, in which case 'which' would find it.
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