rhvoice broken on Arch

[Linux for blind general discussion]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 11:43:58AM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> As is my usual practice, I did a full -Syu upgrade of my two Arch Linux
> systems this morning.
>
> rhvoice is one package that was new this week. It's not working with
> Speech-Dispatcher. When I do a Alt+F2 and type 'orca -r' I hear the
> dummy driver audio message.

it seems someone doesn't read the terminal after the update, does it?

you now need to install the voices that you are using separately. for example:
# pacman -S rhvoice-voice-{alan,slt}

> I've reset for espeak-ng in my /etc/Speech-Dispatcher/speechd.conf, and
> Orca is happy. Yes, I was previously not loading that model (nor Voxin).
>
> Sorry, Alexander!

I don’t know why you are apologizing, but in any case, you don’t need to do this.

> Best,
>
> Janina

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Sincerely, Alexander