On 8/7/25 22:31, Chime Hart wrote:
Hi Aaron: I need to get some sound issues fixed on my main machine where Piper
was installed with your commands. For some reason my laptop is not liking those
commands. I just tried
sudo talkwith piper-tts
but it was unable to switch. Running spd-say -L only finds Alison 1 of my
Voxin voices
Chime
Yes, speech dispatcher does not automatically find tts software when
installed. Some tts programs have modules for speech dispatcher, and I
think they get installed with speech dispatcher. So usually I have to
create a custom module based on the generic module.
When I do spd-say -L, I get a bunch of voices that I've apparently
installed while messing around before:
$ spd-say -L
NAME LANGUAGE VARIANT
af_ZA/google-nwu_low af FEMALE1
bn/multi_low bn FEMALE1
de_DE/thorsten_low de MALE1
de_DE/thorsten-emotion_low de MALE2
de_DE/m-ailabs_low de MALE3
el_GR/rapunzelina_low el FEMALE1
en_US/cmu-arctic_low#awb en MALE1
en_US/cmu-arctic_low#slt en FEMALE1
en_US/cmu-arctic_low#rms en MALE2
en_US/cmu-arctic_low#clb en FEMALE2
en_US/cmu-arctic_low#ksp en MALE3
es_ES/carlfm_low es MALE1
es_ES/m-ailabs_low es MALE2
fa/haaniye_low fa FEMALE1
fi_FI/harri-tapani-ylilammi_low fi MALE1
fr_FR/m-ailabs_low fr FEMALE1
fr_FR/siwis_low fr FEMALE2
fr_FR/tom_low fr MALE1
gu_IN/cmu-indic_low gu FEMALE1
ha_NE/openbible_low ha MALE1
hu_HU/diana-majlinger_low hu FEMALE1
it_IT/mls_low it MALE1
it_IT/riccardo-fasol_low it MALE2
jv_ID/google-gmu_low jv MALE1
ko_KO/kss_low ko FEMALE1
ne_NP/ne-google_low ne FEMALE1
nl/bart-de-leeuw_low nl MALE1
nl/flemishguy_low nl MALE2
nl/nathalie_low nl FEMALE1
nl/pmk_low nl MALE3
pl_PL/m-ailabs_low pl FEMALE1
ru_RU/multi_low ru FEMALE1
sw/lanfrica_low sw MALE1
te_IN/cmu-indic_low te MALE1
tn_ZA/google-nwu_low tn FEMALE1
uk_UK/m-ailabs_low uk MALE1
vi_VN/vais1000_low vi FEMALE1
yo/openbible_low to MALE1
so in order to go through the process and make sure I do it correctly,
I'm going to create a fresh installation of Debian 12 Bookworm. Besides,
I haven't used Speakup before. I've just been using Orca, so using a
screen reader built directly into Linux is something I'm excited to try,
and something I'm surprised I didn't know about already.
-Aaron
