I'm trying to use mimic with Calibre, I have read (link) that I must to configure speech-dispatcher first, but it doesn't seem to work: the voice of spd-say seems to be still that of espeak-ng . I followed these instructions (link) with the difference that the directory was on /usr/share/speech-dispatcher/conf instead of etc... Would anyone be able to help me?
Solved! I've added on speechd.conf 'AddModule' mimic-generic '' sd_mimic-generic '' mimic-generic.conf 'and then configured with spd-conf which writes to home .config / speech-dispatcher. It work.
In addition I also made a module for gTTS that seems to me to work:
GenericExecuteSynth "gtts-cli -l en \"$DATA\" >/tmp/gtts-said.mp3 && play /tmp/gtts-said.mp3 >/dev/null"
GenericCmdDependency "gtts-cli" . So I can choose mimic or gTTS on Calibre.
I've already tried to use mimic with calibre too. But the line
AddModule "mimic-generic" "sd_mimic-generic" "mimic-generic.conf" prevents the speech-dispatcher to start:
Sep 25 18:30:42 abakus systemd[1]: speech-dispatcher.service: Control process exited, code=exited, st>
Sep 25 18:30:42 abakus systemd[1]: speech-dispatcher.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 25 18:30:42 abakus systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Speech Dispatcher.
What are the exact modifcation in speechd.conf and/or mimic-generic.conf?
Thanks in advance.
drmhessler
This is the /home/.../.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf :
......
# -----OUTPUT MODULES CONFIGURATION-----
# Each AddModule line loads an output module.
# Syntax: AddModule "name" "binary" "configuration" "logfile"
# - name is the name under which you can access this module
# - binary is the path to the binary executable of this module,
# either relative (to libexec/speech-dispatcher-modules/
# or ~/.local/libexec/speech-dispatcher-modules) or absolute
# - configuration is the path to the config file of this module,
# either relative (to etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/
# or ~/.config/speech-dispatcher) or absolute
#AddModule "espeak" "sd_espeak" "espeak.conf"
AddModule "espeak-ng" "sd_espeak-ng" "espeak-ng.conf"
#AddModule "festival" "sd_festival" "festival.conf"
#AddModule "flite" "sd_flite" "flite.conf"
#AddModule "ivona" "sd_ivona" "ivona.conf"
#AddModule "pico" "sd_pico" "pico.conf"
#AddModule "espeak-ng-mbrola-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-ng-mbrola-generic.conf"
#AddModule "espeak-mbrola-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-mbrola-generic.conf"
#AddModule "swift-generic" "sd_generic" "swift-generic.conf"
#AddModule "epos-generic" "sd_generic" "epos-generic.conf"
#AddModule "dtk-generic" "sd_generic" "dtk-generic.conf"
#AddModule "ibmtts" "sd_ibmtts" "ibmtts.conf"
#AddModule "cicero" "sd_cicero" "cicero.conf"
#AddModule "kali" "sd_kali" "kali.conf"
#AddModule "mary-generic" "sd_generic" "mary-generic.conf"
#AddModule "baratinoo" "sd_baratinoo" "baratinoo.conf"
AddModule "rhvoice" "sd_rhvoice" "rhvoice.conf"
#AddModule "voxin" "sd_voxin" "voxin.conf"
AddModule "mimic-generic" "sd_generic" "mimic-generic.conf"
AddModule "gtts-generic" "sd_generic" "gtts-generic.conf"
...........
# The DefaultModule selects which output module is the default. You
# must use one of the names of the modules loaded with AddModule.
#DefaultModule espeak-ng
DefaultModule mimic-generic
......and on /home/.../.config/speech-dispatcher/modules there are the following files:
mimic-generic.conf:
GenericExecuteSynth "mimic -voice $VOICE -t \'$DATA\'"
GenericCmdDependency "mimic"
AddVoice "en-us" "FEMALE1" "slt"
AddVoice "en-us" "MALE1" "ab"
AddVoice "en-us" "MALE2" "awb"
AddVoice "en-gb" "MALE3" "rms"
and
gtts-generic.conf :
GenericExecuteSynth "gtts-cli -l en -t co.uk \"$DATA\" >/tmp/gtts-said.mp3 && play /tmp/gtts-said.mp3 >/dev/null"
GenericCmdDependency "gtts-cli"
AddVoice "en-gb" "FEMALE1" "slt2"