Dear Sirs, Good afternoon. I have used the information provided by Mr. (Dr.) Jeremy Whiting. I have installed libttspico package and used it from within Libreoffice.
How can I use spd-conf to use pico package directly from within Jovie? Using c programming language? In LibreOffice there is an add-on, read_text.2018.08.12.oxt, that has an option using an external program such as python3 to read libreOffice documents via this code: /usr/bin/python2.7 or /usr/bin/python3.3 "(PICO_READ_TEXT_PY)" --language=(SELECTION_LANGUAGE_COUNTRY_CODE) --visible=false "(TMP)" The Add-on is downloaded from https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/read-text/0-8.37/@@download/file/read_text.2018.08.12.oxt How can I combine the two lines of codes to read directly from a copied to clibboard from a text file? I have installed the three files from Debian package archive for Wheezy: from https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages libttspico0_1.0+git20110131-2_i386.deb libttspico-data_1.0+git20110131-2_all.deb libttspico-utils_1.0+git20110131-2_i386.deb It has a package called pico2wave that uses this code: Usage: pico2wave <words> -w, --wave=filename.wav Write output to this WAV file (extension SHOULD be .wav) -l, --lang=lang Language (default: "en-US") Help options: -?, --help Show this help message --usage Display brief usage message Regards, Rajib ---------- Replied message ---------- From: Susmita/Rajib <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:19:08 +0530 Subject: Re: How to use a better TTS, such as Pico? To: Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Thank you, Sir. I found that pico could be downloaded and installed from sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils I have in the process of installing libttspico-utils when your email arrived. So thank you once again for informing. Regards, Rajib A GNU-FOSS admirer and user On 21/08/2018, Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Unfortunately Jovie tts is old and no longer maintained. It is slowly (Yes, > I need to do more here) being replaced by QtSpeech. Both Jovie and QtSpeech > use speech-dispatcher as their speech synthesis engines. Fortunately > speech-dispatcher can be configured to use pico pretty easily assuming you > are on a distribution that has packages of pico. spd-conf is a command-line > utility that can be used to configure speech-dispatcher currently. > Hopefully sometime in the near future a gui to configure speech-dispatcher > will be created. I have visions of creating such a configuration tool for > KDE but haven't started yet. > > Hopefully that helps somewhat. > > BR, > Jeremy Whiting ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
