problem with speechd-up and Pico

[Manuel Cortéz]

It seems I have fixed the problem by building the last version of spd 
(0.8.6) from sources, and now Pico has a native binary module, that 
seems to work well both in normal user and root user.


El 23/01/2017 a las 02:10 p. m., Manuel Cortéz escribió:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running speakup with speechd-up in Debian Stable. Speech 
> Dispatcher is configured to use pulseaudio, pulse starts in system 
> mode and everything seems to be OK if you're going to use espeak. 
> However if I want to use another voice, for example Pico 
> (pico-generic.conf in spd's modules), it doesn't work. I have mate 
> installed and if I use spd-say from the normal user it works and I can 
> see pico in the output modules, but I can't get it to work in 
> speechd-up. I have changed everything as needed in the root directory 
> (I had to configure spd for root and allow pulse to give access to 
> this user in order to get speechd-up to work, maybe I did something 
> wrong here?), but it seems it doesn't matter what I change, it just 
> doesn't work.
>
> If I change the default-language in spd (in the root user's settings) 
> it works, but nothing about modules.
>
> Does someone know how to make speechd-up to work with other synths?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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