Re: [orca-list] Espeak Variants

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Don't be sorry, anyway using either es (Spanish) or es-419 (Spanish in Latin America) the Michael variant is 
available.

All available klatt variants can be used with any language provided by espeak-ng.

You can check the packages versions that matter in this case with following commands:
espeak-ng --version
speech-dispatcher -v
orca --version

I didn't find  these packages browsing http://packages.linuxmint.com/

I will install Mint 19.2 in a virtual machine to check.

Meanwhile you the variants are usually installed in:
/usr/share/espeak-ng-data/voices/!v/

So if Michael is installed you should have this file:

/usr/share/espeak-ng-data/voices/!v/Michael

To check, put the file in single quotes as it
includes an exclamation mark that can fool your shell.


On 10/10/2019 18:18, MaryAnn via orca-list wrote:
> Oh, I',m sorry, I did forget to say that I was trying it on Spanish language. But anyways, I tried to switch 
> to English to verify what you said, searched on every English and Spanish dialect, and did not find it, it's 
> not shown.
>
> Actually haven't checked the version I'm using, but I am now on Linux Mint 19.2 Tina.
>
>
> El 10/10/19 a las 12:17, Didier Spaier escribió:
> > I forgot to mention the sixth control labeled Capitalization style,
> > but it doesn't come into play in this case.
> >
> > On 10/10/2019 17:06, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > > Hello MaryAnn,
> > >
> > > In a recent enough Orca (and speech-dispatcher), the Voices tab has 6
> > > drop-down lists, respectively labeled from top to bottom:
> > > Voice Type
> > > Speech system
> > > Speech synthesizer
> > > Language
> > > Person
> > >
> > > If you select espeak-ng as Speech synthesizer and en-US as Language then
> > > scrolling down enough in the Person list you will find:
> > > English (America+Michael)
> > > Here (Slint 64-14.2.1) it's the 17th from the top, as I ship all Klatt
> > > variants (using espeak-ng 1.49.3-dev)
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Didier
> > >
> > > On 10/10/2019 15:58, MaryAnn via orca-list wrote:
> > > > Hello there.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the variants list for Espeak or Espeak-NG in Orca, I see that all of them are there, and I enabled them 
> > > > changing the value to 1 on the configuration module indicated. However, the specific voice "Michael" does not 
> > > > show on the list of voices to select, though It's in the corresponding folder with the rest of the voices.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas about why Michael is not available to use on Orca?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
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