On 8/7/25 22:31, Chime Hart wrote:
Yes, speech dispatcher does not automatically find tts software when installed. Some tts programs have modules for speech dispatcher, and I think they get installed with speech dispatcher. So usually I have to create a custom module based on the generic module.Hi Aaron: I need to get some sound issues fixed on my main machine where Piper was installed with your commands. For some reason my laptop is not liking those commands. I just tried sudo talkwith piper-tts but it was unable to switch. Running spd-say -L only finds Alison 1 of my Voxin voices Chime
When I do spd-say -L, I get a bunch of voices that I've apparently installed while messing around before:
$ spd-say -L NAME LANGUAGE VARIANT af_ZA/google-nwu_low af FEMALE1 bn/multi_low bn FEMALE1 de_DE/thorsten_low de MALE1 de_DE/thorsten-emotion_low de MALE2 de_DE/m-ailabs_low de MALE3 el_GR/rapunzelina_low el FEMALE1 en_US/cmu-arctic_low#awb en MALE1 en_US/cmu-arctic_low#slt en FEMALE1 en_US/cmu-arctic_low#rms en MALE2 en_US/cmu-arctic_low#clb en FEMALE2 en_US/cmu-arctic_low#ksp en MALE3 es_ES/carlfm_low es MALE1 es_ES/m-ailabs_low es MALE2 fa/haaniye_low fa FEMALE1 fi_FI/harri-tapani-ylilammi_low fi MALE1 fr_FR/m-ailabs_low fr FEMALE1 fr_FR/siwis_low fr FEMALE2 fr_FR/tom_low fr MALE1 gu_IN/cmu-indic_low gu FEMALE1 ha_NE/openbible_low ha MALE1 hu_HU/diana-majlinger_low hu FEMALE1 it_IT/mls_low it MALE1 it_IT/riccardo-fasol_low it MALE2 jv_ID/google-gmu_low jv MALE1 ko_KO/kss_low ko FEMALE1 ne_NP/ne-google_low ne FEMALE1 nl/bart-de-leeuw_low nl MALE1 nl/flemishguy_low nl MALE2 nl/nathalie_low nl FEMALE1 nl/pmk_low nl MALE3 pl_PL/m-ailabs_low pl FEMALE1 ru_RU/multi_low ru FEMALE1 sw/lanfrica_low sw MALE1 te_IN/cmu-indic_low te MALE1 tn_ZA/google-nwu_low tn FEMALE1 uk_UK/m-ailabs_low uk MALE1 vi_VN/vais1000_low vi FEMALE1 yo/openbible_low to MALE1so in order to go through the process and make sure I do it correctly, I'm going to create a fresh installation of Debian 12 Bookworm. Besides, I haven't used Speakup before. I've just been using Orca, so using a screen reader built directly into Linux is something I'm excited to try, and something I'm surprised I didn't know about already.
-Aaron