Is there a project that is jovie successor? (fwd)

[Gustav Degreef]

Thanks Jeremy.  Very clear instructions.  Here is the zip file, Gustav

On 10/26/21 5:36 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Gustav,
>
> Ok, the quickest way to debug this will be to set a LogDir in 
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf like this:
>
> #LogDir "default" <-- Comment out this one if it's not by adding the # 
> at the front.
> LogDir "/home/jeremy/sdlogs/"
>
> sudo will be needed to edit those files in /etc/speech-dispatcher/
>
> you'll need to create an sdlogs folder in your home directory (I tried 
> using the default opensuse /var/log/speech-dispatcher path, but sd 
> running as me couldn't write there and it's complicated, better to 
> just make a new path in your home folder and point to it. Also use 
> your username, not jeremy :)
>
> Then when you run spd-say "Hello" or whatever it will create a few log 
> files in that sdlogs path. I would say do that a couple of times then 
> have okular speak the current page a couple of times. Then zip up that 
> sdlogs folder and send it here and we can take a look at what 
> speech-dispatcher is getting, and hopefully find out why it sounds 
> garbled on your audio system.
>
> BR,
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 8:29 AM Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org 
> <mailto:jpwhiting at kde.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 8:09 AM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Jeremy,
>
>         Deeply appreciate your time and effort, but no luck.
>
>         Â Â user:~/QtSpeech/hello_speak> qmake-qt5
>         Info: creating stash file
>         /home/user/QtSpeech/hello_speak/.qmake.stash
>         Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: texttospeech
>
>
>     Ok, from that it seems you don't have the -devel package needed to
>     build things against QtSpeech. For that install the following:
>
>     sudo zypper install libqt5-qtspeech-devel
>
>     Then you should be able to build hello_speak.
>
>     But since speech-dispatcher itself doesn't have the problem
>     (spd-say didn't duplicate) the problem is either in Okular's use
>     of QtSpeech (not likely, it's one line that calls QtSpeech) or
>     QtSpeech itself. On my test vm I've only got the speechd plugin
>     for QtSpeech in
>     /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/texttospeech/
>     On your machine do you have a flite plugin there also from some
>     package from 15.0 or 15.1 times maybe (I don't see any flite
>     plugin package in 15.2 repos, but maybe you got it before upgrading).
>
>     I took another look at QtSpeech code itself though and I don't see
>     any way it would ever use more than one plugin or send the text to
>     multiple plugins. Then I took a look at the speechd plugin again
>     and it definitely only sends the text it gets to spd_say function
>     once. I think the next thing to try will be to enable debugging in
>     speech-dispatcher (after we are sure that's what plugin QtSpeech
>     is using) and see what text it's getting to synthesize from
>     okular. I'll write up some instructions for that once I do it here
>     and remember how it's done :)
>
>     thanks,
>     Jeremy
>
>         user:~/QtSpeech/hello_speak> make
>         make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
>
>         Since your opensuse VM is working fine, I doube checked my
>         installations.  I have a 17 inch laptop and a 13 inch old one
>         that I use
>         for traveling.  Both machines have a main partition opensuse
>         15.2 and a
>         "test" partition with opensuse 15.3.  3/4 of these
>         installations have
>         the duplicate voices in Okular and Kmouth. Only 1 15.3
>         installation is
>         having a normal speech output in Ojular.  All 4 installations
>         are
>         upgraded systems (from previous opensuse 15.0, 15.1 and prior
>         releases.Â
>         So none of them is a "clean" install like your VM.
>
>         I tried building it on each laptop, but the same result.  
>         You were
>         reight at the beginnig, it's turning out quite difficult to
>         track down.Â
>         Any other suggestions?
>
>         If all else fails, I'll do a clean install of 15.3 on one of
>         these 4
>         partitions.
>
>         Thanks, Gustav.
>
>
>     Truncating the rest to get past mailing list size limit without
>     approval.
>

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