Re: Any Progress on an AI Related Screen-Reader?

On 8/8/25 4:12 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Aaron Chantrill, le ven. 08 août 2025 10:07:22 -0400, a ecrit:
>> 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.
> 
> It does.
> 
>> Some tts programs have modules for speech dispatcher, and I think
>> they get installed with speech dispatcher.
> 
> And then speech-dispatcher sees them.
> 
> When the tts is a library, you just need to install the
> speech-dispatcher module for that (we don't necessarily want to pull the
> library when installing speech-dispatcher, that'd clutter the disk and
> the list of synths).
> 
> When the tts is a separate program, then speech-dispatcher module config
> file will detect it.
> 
>> So usually I have to create a
>> custom module based on the generic module.
> 
> It's another way of connecting to external synths. It's not the
> recommended way 

Which is?

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John Doe