| Summary: | Provide option to select voice for flite text-to-speech (speak document) | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | Michael D <nortexoid> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde.shieling, nate, yurchor |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 20.12.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Manjaro | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Michael D
2021-03-11 11:27:46 UTC
The current Okular just uses speech-dispatcher for TTS service. It is possible to configure speech-dispatcher via /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. Just uncomment AddModule "flite" "sd_flite" "flite.conf" Then it is possible to choose the voice for flite via /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/flite.conf: voice=<voice_name> Hope it helps a bit. Thanks, that's helpful. Unfortunately I can't get speech dispatcher to use anything but the dummy output module as fallback, but that's another issue. LineageOS, and I guess other "distros" based on AOSP too, uses the TTS system of Google. Is it possible to use them in Okular, and discard speech-dispatcher? Well, I don't know if S-D should be discarded or it could use Googles voices, in any case, would be it possible to use them instead of those "Stephen Hawkins'" ones used currently without infringing some license or so? I don't think that LineageOS and other popular ROMs are breaking the law when using Google's open sourced technologies, am I right? If it were possible, TTS in Linux would be finally usable. We lack many decent accessibility solutions. Some people use their web browser and one of those TTS plugins that load documents in the browser and use tolerable voices, but thats just botching. |