Re: Debian 12 speech-dispatcher with flite voices

Hello,

Aaron Chantrill, le sam. 09 août 2025 22:24:45 -0400, a ecrit:
> I'm trying to use flite with speech-dispatcher, but I'm not fond of the kal16
> voice. I'd much rather use slt. I looked at the flite.c source code at [1]
> https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/blob/master/src/modules/flite.c and it
> appears to be loading only either 'kal' or 'kal16' based on a compiler flag
> setting. When I used apt to install flite, it came with 'kal', 'awb_time',
> 'kal16', 'awb', 'rms' and 'slt'. Does anyone know if I have to compile a custom
> version of /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_flite in order to use a
> different voice?

Currently, yes. See

https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues/435

Contribution welcome!

Samuel