Re: [orca-list] what's the best tts for orca, free or paid?

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Norman,

In the output of this command:
spd-list -O|grep rhvoice # mind the capital O
you should find:
rhvoice
If not the module is not properly installed.
If yes please post the output of:
spd-say -o rhvoice -L # mind the lower case o and the capital L
At least one voice should be listed.

Then you should hear the output of:
spd-say -o rhvoice Hello

Yuu can also try with another voice or language listed in the output of:
spd-say -o rhvoice -L

For instance;
spd-say -o rhvoice -y Elena Hello
spd-say -o rhvoice -l uk Hello

To know more, type:
spd-say --help

If everything is OK you could restart Orca and in the Voices Tab of the
Orca Preferences window choose:
Synthesizer: rhvoice
Language: one of those listed
Person: one of the voices listed.

A few things you can check to investigate further if need be:
Do you have this directory containing the voices?
/usr/share/RHVoice/voices/

Do you have this configuration file?
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/rhvoice.conf
        
Do you have this line in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf?
#AddModule "rhvoice"                  "sd_rhvoice"   "rhvoice.conf"

And check the output of:
ls -l /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher/modules/sd_rhvoice
file  /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher/modules/sd_rhvoice
(maybe /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib)

Have a good day,
Didier


Le 18/06/2020 à 16:26, Norman King a écrit :
> Would you have a guide to building this?
>
> I tried and it seems to have worked, i have an rh voice test module, but i'm not sure how to use it.
>
> I did simlink it to speech-dispatcher-modules but i can't restart speech-dispatcher.
>
> So i rebooted but still no rh voice sinthasizer.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> On 6/18/2020 2:49 AM, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> > Le 18/06/2020 à 07:17, John Covici a écrit :
> > > So, rhvoice is not a package in my gentoo repository, how would I get
> > > such a thing?
> > Here is the git repository:
> > https://github.com/Olga-Yakovleva/RHVoice
> >
> > The wiki:
> > https://github.com/Olga-Yakovleva/RHVoice/wiki
> >
> > How to build it:
> > https://github.com/Olga-Yakovleva/RHVoice/wiki/Building-on-Linux
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Didier
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