Re: weird voice used by Orca by default.

[Didier Spaier]

Le 12/09/2022 à 23:13, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Test of a new version of a Linux system in a Qemu VM, with:
> speech-dispatcher-0.11.2
> orca-42.0
> LANG set to fr_FR.utf8
> DefaultModule espeak-ng in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speehcd.conf
> # DefaultLanguage "en-US" in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speehcd.conf
> 
> Fisrt boot of the system, landing in a console then typing "startx" to start X
> and LXQt, I hear a voice in English in LXQ but expected a French one.
> In the Voice Tab of the Orca preferences window I see:
> Synthétiseur vocal: Synthétiseur by default
> Langue : fr-FR
> Personne : voix par défault default
> and if I click on "Person" drop down list I see only Virginie.
> 
> This looks weird as Virginie is a pico voice, not a espeak-ng voice.
> 
> Nothing change if I set pico explicitly in the Synthétiseur vocal field
> But if I set Virginie as Person I do hear virginie.
> 
> However if I set espeak-ng I do hear a French voice.
> 
> Aldo, if I set the syntétiseur vocal to espeak-ng-mbrola, the voice is the 
> same,
> to actually use an espeak-ng-mbrola voice I need to set one as Person
> (french-mbrola-1 or french-mbrola-2 instead of voix par défault 
> espak-ng-mbrola
> 
> Any clue appreciated, I don't know if it is an issue with orca and/or spd 
> and/or
> my installation.

PS:

This issue seems similar to the one reported here:
https://www.freelists.org/post/slint/Slint-15-Orca-problem

I just checked, I upgraded spd to version 0.11.2 on Friday 26 August 2022 in the
repository in concern. I also upgraded the kernel

Also, when using one of the mbrola voices, speech is very very fast.

Cheers,
Didier