pico fails to read webcontent with firefox using orca

[Laurent Pelecq]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, chrys87 wrote:
> I found a problem using the pico module. Can anybody reproduce it?
>
> how to reproduce it:
>
> 1. start orca
> 2. setup orca for using speechd/pico
> 3. open firefox
>
> what happens.
> pico goes silent
>
> what expect
> pico read the content
>
> i think this is an problem in the pico module because the espeak and 
> ibmtts modules are working correctly with in this case.
>
> I?m using the latest arch (with latest 
> orca/firefox/speech-dispatcher/gnome)  with pico from the aur
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/svox-pico-git/
>
> has anyone a solution?  pico is a realy cool tts with better voices in 
> german as espeak. so it would realy cool if we get it to work :).

Hi,

You probably need to install speech-dispatcher from the AUR as well.

speech-dispatcher-git from the AUR lists svox-pico-git as an optional 
dependency. The standard package doesn't.

Laurent