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Bug#958747: libqt5texttospeech5 might should depend or recommend a speech plugin



Package: libqt5texttospeech5
Version: 5.12.5-1
Severity: normal
Tags: a11y
Control: block 955762 by -1
Control: tags 955762 - patch

Hi,

I filed #955762 on Okular because if one doesn't have at least one of
qtspeech5-flite-plugin or qtspeech5-speechd-plugin installed, the only error
it prints is to the CLI doing TTS. These plugins have no reverse dependencies.

It appears this isn't specific to Okular. KMouth also doesn't work unless
one types the path to a binary to a preferred engine. KAnagram's settings
are to speak the words by default but it hadn't been doing this without
a plugin. Knights (which doesn't have rdeps either) tries to use speech out
of the box though there is no mention in the program.

I'm not familiar with Qt and don't know whether this library has an actual
dependency on a plugin, or if the dep duty lies elsewhere. Or which engine
should be preferred, assuming all programs can use either.

Please point me in the right direction. It was this blog post [1] that had
shown me that the dependency is needed, and hopefully no one else will miss
out on such nifty features or feel frustration.

[1] https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2018/12/text-to-speech-on-gnulinux-part-2-okular-to-speech.html

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libqt5texttospeech5 depends on:
ii  libc6                             2.30-4
ii  libqt5core5a [qtbase-abi-5-12-5]  5.12.5+dfsg-9
ii  libstdc++6                        10-20200411-1

libqt5texttospeech5 recommends no packages.

libqt5texttospeech5 suggests no packages.

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