I've installed the MBROLA voices, which I think are better than the ones provided with espeak. I can have espeak use them in CLI, but I fail to have Jovie use them, their are simply not listed. Unless there is an easy way to achieve this, I think Jovie could really gain in quality if it could handle MBROLA voices out of the box, provided the user has installed them.
Do you have eSpeak support for speech-dispatcher installed? See also https://devel.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher.html
Hi Christoph, thank you for answering. I do have speech-dispatcher-espeak 0.8.5 installed. Now there is no command spd-conf available. I do have a file named /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf which I guess I could modify to achieve what I want. The file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-mbrola-generic.conf doesn't exist though. One other thing also is that speech-dispatcherd fails to run : [root@edouard modules]# systemctl status speech-dispatcherd.service ● speech-dispatcherd.service - Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis. Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/speech-dispatcherd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since mar. 2016-11-08 08:42:23 CET; 22min ago Process: 1183 ExecStart=/usr/bin/speech-dispatcher -d (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) nov. 08 08:42:23 edouard.lcmd.espci.fr systemd[1]: Starting Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis.... nov. 08 08:42:23 edouard.lcmd.espci.fr speech-dispatcher[1183]: [Tue Nov 8 08:42:23 2016 : 400276] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8.5 starting nov. 08 08:42:23 edouard.lcmd.espci.fr systemd[1]: speech-dispatcherd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 nov. 08 08:42:23 edouard.lcmd.espci.fr systemd[1]: Failed to start Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis.. nov. 08 08:42:23 edouard.lcmd.espci.fr systemd[1]: speech-dispatcherd.service: Unit entered failed state. nov. 08 08:42:23 edouard.lcmd.espci.fr systemd[1]: speech-dispatcherd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. I can't start it. Fedora 25 is released next week, so I'll upgrade and see what happens, and i'll keep you posted. Best, Édouard
Hi Christoph, Update: so spd-conf is actually provided by speech-dispatcher-utils. Now I fail to spd-conf, see bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408551 I will keep you updated. Merry Christmas!
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug.