1269297 - narrate can't use other output modules but espeak only in Linux

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Web Speech, defect)

Description

[onorua]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160501030217

Steps to reproduce:

I've installed Speech Dispatcher version 0.8.3-1 with festival plugin of the same version. I was able to play text using narrate from espeak, but when I've disabled all modules except festival in speech-dispatcher, firefox can't read anything. When narrate read with espeak voice is just terrible robotic, which makes comfort "reading" impossible. 


Actual results:

When I've read the logs of speech-dispatcher, I've found out that:
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[Mon May  2 17:48:12 2016 : 930661] speechd:   Speech Dispatcher Logging to file /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/log//speech-dispatcher.log
[Mon May  2 17:48:12 2016 : 930701] speechd:   Speech Dispatcher started with 5 output modules
[Mon May  2 17:48:12 2016 : 932061] speechd: Speech Dispatcher started and waiting for clients ...
[Mon May  2 17:48:12 2016 : 932435] speechd: ERROR: Can't list voices for module espeak
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while when I do /usr/bin/spd-say "test message", I can see in logs:
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[Mon May  2 17:51:11 2016 : 447925] speechd:   Warning: Didn't find preferred output module, using default
[Mon May  2 17:51:11 2016 : 447954] speechd:   Couldn't load default output module, trying other modules
[Mon May  2 17:51:11 2016 : 447967] speechd:   Output module festival seems to be working, using it
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Expected results:

I would like to have possibility to switch output module from default espeak to festival, or any supported by speech-dispatcher, but looks like Firefox has some "hardcoded" option to use, which makes it impossible to use.

Comment 1

[Kirill Kirillov]

openSUSE, Fedora and perhaps a few more Linux distributions have switched from "espeak" to "espeak-ng" module recently, so the narrate feature is no longer working for them. Please consider using different output modules for speech-dispatcher, otherwise nobody can use the feature.