Re: [orca-list] free voices other than espeak

[Volodymyr Dorozhinsky <dorozhinsky ukr net>]

Hi,


for Ubuntu/Debian the RH-Voices can be installed from the repo:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linvinus/rhvoice
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhvoice
sudo apt-get install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
sudo reboot



Note: for speech-dispatcher version 0.9.1 (default in Ubuntu 20.04) 
there is a bug in RH-Voice package preventing getting the list of the 
voices. As a result there is no way to switch RH-Voices in Orca 
settings. The work around is to create another Orca settings profile and 
edit it manually in the Orca settings file directly.



Best regards

Volodymyr


On 4/16/21 9:10 PM, Glenn K0LNY wrote:
> Or if there is just a repository to add, that is not so bad either.
> But I don't know if there is such for RH Voices, or for Fenrir as well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] free voices other than espeak
>
>
> Perhaps the better question is:
>
> Is there a way to install RH Voice without building from source? and
> if there isn't, why not?
>
> Building from source isn't necessarily "hard" but it is an extra level
> of hassle that I think most users would rather avoid and that most
> will settle for something that's "good enough" that's a simple sudo
> apt-get install away over trying to build something better from source
> and debugging when something goes wrong with the build process... I've
> built stuff both from git clones and from gzipped tarballs before, but
> I still prefer to stick to what I can get from the Debian repositories
> or as a manually installed .deb package even if that sometimes means
> running slightly outdated versions(I tend to use Debian Testing, so I
> don't run into the same level of obsolescence you get later in the
> life cycle of Debian Stable without backports).
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