Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

["K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <sthibault@debian.org>
To: "K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email>
Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices


K0LNY ??, le mar. 08 juil. 2025 16:30:53 -0500, a ecrit:
> After reinstalling everything, and still having the same trouble, I looked
> again.
> I misinterpreted when you wrote /user, you meant something like 
> /run/pi/...

/run/pi? Is that really Debian?
* Yes, pi is a RaspberryPI made by Debian.
It uses a light version of LXDE on a Raspberry PI, but this is X86.
> So I did find the log, there is a voxin.log in the log folder of
> speech-dispatcher, and this is the contents of that:
>
>   GNU nano 5.4                                              voxin.log
> /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_voxin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libsndfile.so.1: cannot open shared objec>

So you are missing the libsndfile1 package. The provider of voxin should
fix their installer into making sure that this library really is there.
* I did contact Gilles Cass too, but haven't heard back yet.
When you said

> It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so Voxin is working.

Was it really speaking as voxin would?
* Yes, it was the IBM voice.

Thanks.

Glenn

Samuel

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Samuel Thibault" <sthibault@debian.org>
> To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices
>
>
> K0LNY wrote:
> > It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so Voxin is working.
>
> | aplay ? Why this pipe? There should be no need for this.
>
> But that's useful data point.
>
> Then, *as usual*, we need actual logs to be able to determine what is
> going wrong. They are in
> /run/user/1000something/speech-dispatcher/log/speech-dispatcher.log
>
> Samuel