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

[Jonesy Cee <jones cee7 yahoo com>]

I followed the installation process you outlined. Have installed everything that you said. Could you explain what you mean about creating a separate profile four rhvoice?

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On Apr 16, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Volodymyr Dorozhinsky via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:

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running slightly outdated versions(I tend to use Debian Testing, so I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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