what distro?
On 1/23/2018 5:44 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Hi,
I just install Voxin and it sounds great with Orca. You may want to
give it a try.
They also provide installer to make things easier.
Best Regards
Edhoari Setiyoso
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On 01/18/2018 12:53 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
You can try Festival or Flite, as they both have some fairly good
voices. But Festival needs to be started in server mode in order for
it to work with Orca, and I'm not entirely sure that
speech-dispatcher knows how to find the better quality Flite voices.
The best way to start Festival in server mode would be to write a
systemd service that starts, monitors and stops it. It should be
placed in /etc/systemd/system and should be executable. Run the
following commands to make the right file.
sudo touch /etc/systemd/system/festival.service
sudo chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/festival.service
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/festival.service
and then paste the following content into the file.
[Unit]
Description=Festival speech synthesis server
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/festival_server
Type=simple
Now run
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now festival
Now you need voices. Look at something like
apt-cache search festival
There should be a fairly sizeable number of voices. I believe the
Arctic HTS voices are probably the best. Install any voices you can find
sudo apt-get install <voicename>
where voicename is the name to the left of your search results. The
documentation I'm reading says you will need to reboot after
installing voices, but you should only need to restart the Festival
service
sudo systemctl restart festival
and then toggle Orca off and on by pressing alt+super+s twice.
I found the documentation for this at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system_administrators_guide/enable_festival
but it's designed for Red Hat systems. I have adapted the
instructions so that they should work on the latest Debian Stretch or
Testing/Unstable systems. I don't have a Debian system to test the
modified instructions, so your mileage may vary.
Flite will be easier to get working, but last time I looked at it, I
could only see the horrible default voice. Try
sudo apt-get install flite
You may need to uncomment its module in either
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd-conf or
~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, or maybe just run
spd-config
from a terminal and follow the prompts, which should allow you to
select either Festival or Flite. Toggle Orca and then select the
synthesizer and voice you want from the voice tab in your Orca
preferences. If all goes well, you should be able to hear a different
voice from the default Espeak.
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