Setting the DefaultVoice for a voice without a conf file

[Storm Dragon]

Howdy Didier,

I discovered that by setting the DefaultVoiceType to MALE2, it does use the 
voice I want, but only with spd-say. Orca and Fenrir both do not use it, but 
the default original voice, Alan. I assume that that is MALE1.

Thanks,
Storm
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:28:21PM +0100, Didier Spaier wrote:
>Hello Storm,
>
>On 28/11/2018 20:36, Storm Dragon wrote:
>> Now when RHVoice speaks, it uses the alan voice. I would rather it use
>> bdl instead. Is thee a way I can specify this either in the main
>> speechd.conf file or in the placeholder module file?
>
>AFAIK, not yet.
>
>Currently there is no way to set a default voice in speech-dispatcher:
>This can only be done by and for a client like Orca or Chromevox.
>
>Two entries in the TODO could be related:
>* Allow setting a synthesis voice in the user config using spd-conf.
>(0.10) Synthesizer specific settings API.
>
>It seems me that it is hazardous to manually write such a setting in a
>config file (be it at the synthesizer or global level), because there is
>no guarantee that the voice be available (because of a typo, or because
>it is not installed or it has been removed).
>
>The safe way to specify it would be:
>1) Get the synthesis voice list for this synthesizer. With the recent
>changes only the currently available ones should be listed.
>2) Pick one and write its name somewhere in the system or user config.
>
>Of course even that is not 100% safe, as the voice could still have been
>removed after having written the setting. But hey, we can't prevent the
>user to shoot oneself in the foot.
>
>Best,
>
>Didier

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