Hi Samuel, On 16 Dec 2025 at 10:37:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Carles Pina i Estany, le mar. 16 déc. 2025 08:04:38 +0000, a ecrit: > > I am not a user of Orca, but I'm helping some people to set it up. This > > is how I ended writing now https://wiki.debian.org/Orca#Orca_voices > > Thanks for your contribution! Also thanks for the feedback / improvements. > I have fixed it a bit (speech-dispatcher only needs a SIGHUP, i.e. a > reload, to see new voices) > > > Also, I have a quick question. In the file > > /usr/share/doc/mbrola/README.Debian it says: > > > > """ > > To make use of mbrola along espeak in speech-dispatcher, enable the > > espeak-mbrola-generic module by uncommenting the corresponding line in > > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf > > """ > > Ah, that's outdated, now that speech-dispatcher's native espeak module > supports mbrola voices. I have fixed them for the next upload. cool! I have a question, since you maintain many of that pacakges (and even mbrola-en1). As a user, I found it confusing that I had to do the "systemctl --user reload speech-dispatcher" in order to be able to use the voices in Orca. I wonder if there is any way that this could be made easier? I haven't used triggers in packages, but I don't know if there is any system that mbrola-LANG packages could notify that is installed; and that speech-dispatcher would display via a debconf template "if you just installed a new language that could be used in speech-dispatcher you might need to do systemctl --user ..." I know that the mbrola-LANG could show a deconf message saying "if this voice is going to be used in a running speech-dispatcher you need to do systemctl --user..." but I guess that this is not the business of the mbrola-LANG to inform of that... (I am willing to try and experiment around that; when time permits; if something would a possible improvement) Cheers, -- Carles Pina i Estany https://carles.pina.cat | carles@pina.cat | cpina@debian.org
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