Re: Any Progress on an AI Related Screen-Reader?
john doe, le ven. 08 août 2025 16:18:08 +0200, a ecrit:
> On 8/8/25 4:12 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Aaron Chantrill, le ven. 08 août 2025 10:07:22 -0400, a ecrit:
> > > On 8/7/25 22:31, Chime Hart wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Yes, speech dispatcher does not automatically find tts software when
> > > installed.
> >
> > It does.
> >
> > > Some tts programs have modules for speech dispatcher, and I think
> > > they get installed with speech dispatcher.
> >
> > And then speech-dispatcher sees them.
> >
> > When the tts is a library, you just need to install the
> > speech-dispatcher module for that (we don't necessarily want to pull the
> > library when installing speech-dispatcher, that'd clutter the disk and
> > the list of synths).
> >
> > When the tts is a separate program, then speech-dispatcher module config
> > file will detect it.
> >
> > > So usually I have to create a
> > > custom module based on the generic module.
> >
> > It's another way of connecting to external synths. It's not the
> > recommended way
>
> Which is?
The documented way: a module specific to the synth, which knows how to
drive it in a more controlled way than just executing a command.
Samuel
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