Re: [orca-list] suggestion for variants voice in orca

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello Criss,

espak-bg was a typo, I meant espeak-ng, sorry.

Orca can only show the voices that speech-dispatcher lists. So it is
impossible that orca lists the variants if speech-dispatcher doesn't.

I just had a look at the file espeak-ng.conf in the package
speech-dispatcher_0.9.1-4_amd64.deb that ships it in Ubuntu mate 20.04.

Indeed it includes:
EspeakListVoiceVariants 0

But this is the choice of the packager, So this issue has nothing not
with Orca, but should be brought to the attention of the packager of
speech-dispatcher for Ubuntu 20.04.

This being said, I can understand this choice as not everybody wants to
have all the variants listed. That a user needs to edit a configuration
file to get a specific feature doesn't look like an issue to me, as long
as the information about this setting is available.

This being said in Slint that I maintain these variants are listed by
default. But I don't know if someone uses them. Not me, as I widely
prefer the mbrola ones and only uses orca for testing anyway. <smile> 

Bests regards,

Didier


Le 30/04/2020 à 00:13, Criss via orca-list a écrit :
> Hello, thank for your answer.
>
> I no understand what is espeak-bg. For example in ubuntu mate 20.4 with orca 3.36, in preferences,voice, 
> you can select espeak-ng only. In person only appear diferent accent, but not all variant. I only can 
> enable it editing espeak-ng.conf. Well, maybe I am not understanding, so you say that is posible select any 
> variant only using orca preferenses or no?, because that is my point, Orca must be show all variant for 
> default with out extra configuration for users.
>
>
> sorry if I don't understand XD.
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