RHVoice

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RHVoice is a text-to-speech engine with extended language support.

Installation

Emerge

Enable the GURU repository:

root #eselect repository enable guru
root #emaint sync -r guru

Install the RHVoice metapackage:

root #emerge --ask app-accessibility/rhvoice

It will pull voices for all locales set by the L10N USE_EXPAND, skipping nonfree by default.

Configuration

Files

  • /etc/RHVoice/RHVoice.conf - Global (system wide) configuration file.

Speech Dispatcher

Uncomment the following line in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf:

CODE
AddModule "rhvoice"                  "sd_rhvoice"   "rhvoice.conf"

Set RHVoice as the default module (optional):

CODE
DefaultModule rhvoice

Test the new configuration:

user $killall speech-dispatcher
user $spd-say "Hello!"

Usage

Test if RHVoice works:

user $echo "Hello!" | RHVoice-test

See also