TTS fails unless a voice is specified on the command line.

[sthibaul]

As reported by Stepan Novotny on https://bugs.debian.org/1101681

Steps to reproduce

spd-say -o espeak-ng-mbrola 'Testing testing 1 2 3'

Obtained behavior

This fails to use the default (mbrola) voice

Expected behavior

This should select an mbrola voice (according to language etc.)

Behavior information

Running spd-say -o espeak-ng-mbrola -y mb-us1 'Testing testing 1 2 3' does get an mbrola voice.

I tried adding voice configuraiton to /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng-mbrola.conf

   VoiceFileDependency "/usr/share/mbrola/$VOICE/$VOICE"
   VoiceFileDependency "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-ng-data/voices/mb/mb-$VOICE"
   AddVoice "en-us" "FEMALE1" "us1"
   AddVoice "en-us" "MALE1" "us2"
   DefaultVoice "us1"

The above paramters are all ignored.

Distribution

Debian 13

Version of Speech-dispatcher

0.12.0

[sthibaul]

IIRC espeak-ng doesn't help much with selecting only mbrola voices, a bit of investigation is needed in the espeak-ng module to fix this.

[sthibaul]

At the beginning of module_speak_sync, in the if (EspeakMbrola case, when msg_settings.voice.name is not specified, we should go through espeak_voice_list ourself to find an mbrola voice that matches the language and type.