stormdragon2976 to configure Speech Dispatcher and set RHVoice as default:
run "spd-conf"
And you get something like this: Speech Dispatcher configuration tool
Do you want to setup a completely new configuration? [yes] :
Do you want to create/setup a 'user' or 'system' configuration [user] :
User configuration created in /home/vantu5z/.config/speech-dispatcher Configuring user settings for Speech Dispatcher Default output module [espeak] : rhvoice
The value you have chosen is not among the suggested values. You have chosen 'rhvoice'. The suggested values are ['espeak', 'flite', 'festival', 'cicero', 'ibmtts'] Do you want to correct your answer? [yes] : no
Default language (two-letter iso language code like "en" or "cs") [en] : ru
Default audio output method [pulse] :
Default speech rate (on the scale of -100..100, 0 is default, 50 is faster, -50 is slower) [0] :
Default speech pitch (on the scale of -100..100, 0 is default, 50 is higher, -50 is lower) [0] :
Do you want to have Speech Dispatcher automatically started from ~/.config/autostart ? This is usually not necessary, most applications will start Speech Dispatcher automatically. [no] :
Do you want to start/restart Speech Dispatcher now and run some tests? [yes] :
Starting Speech Dispatcher in user-mode [Sun Nov 4 19:09:17 2018 : 119436] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8.8 starting Testing Speech Dispatcher using spd_say Did you hear the message about Speech Dispatcher working? [yes] :
Speech Dispatcher is installed and working! Speech Dispatcher works. Do you want to skip other tests? [yes] :
Diagnostics results: Speech Dispatcher is working End of diagnostics results
After that you can run: spd-say "some text to read"
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alex19EP commented on 2020-02-09 14:12
теперь доступна обычная версия. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rhvoice/ можно использовать ее если не нужны последние изменения апстрима.