On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 12:36:25PM -0700, Chime Hart wrote: > last year I purchased some hi quality voices from Oralux, which are software > speech. When I have Allison installed, I can send her text through spd-say. > Making matters more complex, speech-dispatcher will not seem to install on > this Debian Sid machine. This is contradictory. Having spd-say working implies a working and installed speech-dispatcher. So, I will assume you have speech-dispatcher installed and spd-say installed and working on one machine, but not another. In that case saying speech-dispatcher won't install doesn't help us help you. > Guidance I've received from 2 sources, says I must > install and have espeak talking before I can switch to Allison, which is an > embedded voice. If these voices interface through speech-dispatcher, then that would make sense. However, the only way I know of to interface speakup to speech-dispatcher right now is through speechd-up. So, it seems like you would have to install speechd-up, get that working with speech-dispatcher and espeak-ng, and once you have that working get speech-dispatcher to use your purchased voices. > When I was running Slint on a laptop, Didier had created a > talk-with command to easily switch synths, but his script would need to be > re written for Debian. I can confirm the talkwith provided in the speakup-tools package for debian bullseye seems to be broken. Issuing talkwith soft comes back with: /usr/sbin/talkwith: 88: shift: can't shift that many I took a look at the script, but don't see where the problem is. > In addition, if I unload the DecTalk module, I won't > have speech, or would their be a way of having both DecTalk and software > speech at the same time? No, you can't have both your dectalk and software speech at the same time. > So, can some1 please provide exact commands I can > switch synths on the fly? I ran a locate for softsynth but nothing found. No surprise. What you want is the speakup_soft module. You would as root load that with: modprobe speakup_soft then start espeakup or speechd-up, depending on which one you use. I think that would be something like: systemctl speechd-up start or systemctl espeakup start I'm not a systemd user, so someone else can correct the above if they're not correct. Now, assuming you have both speakup_soft and speakup_dectlk kernel modules loaded, you can switch between them as root with: echo dectlk >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth for the dectalk, and echo soft >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth for software speech. Remember that before switching to dectlk you should stop espeakup or speechd-up, and after switching to soft you should start espeakup or speechd-up. I seem to recall you use csh, so maybe someone can roll all that into a csh script for you. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx
