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johnfactotum
Foliate snap does not work with Festival
Foliate snap doesn't work with Festival. Even tho the festival is installed and Flatpak woks fine with it, snap doesn't. I can click the play tts button but it just get's pressed and unpressed as soon as I let go of the mouse click.
The Snap package only supports espeak-ng and the mb-en1 voice at the moment. See #324.
This should be fixed in the GTK 4 version now that it's using speech-dispatcher. It just needs to have permission to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock. Also requires speech-dispatcher >= 0.11.4 installed on the host.
CC @soumyaDghosh
@johnfactotum So, the speech-dispatcher needs to be added in the snap right?
No, speech-dispatcher runs on the host. Foliate will use it by connecting to the socket at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock. So it just needs readwrite access to the file.
Note that currently it uses GLib.get_user_runtime_dir(), though: https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/blob/641a20c41dcb43e51cc2b83b55db92abd71867c4/src/speech.js#L21 And I'm not sure if it'd get the right path from that. It may need to be changed to something specific to Snap.
Note that currently it uses
GLib.get_user_runtime_dir(), though:https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/blob/641a20c41dcb43e51cc2b83b55db92abd71867c4/src/speech.js#L21 And I'm not sure if it'd get the right path from that. It may need to be changed to something specific to Snap.
Can you explain me the way to test it?
Install, on the host system, speech-dispatcher and espeak-ng, festival, etc. Open a book in Foliate. Click on the TTS button on the navbar, and press the play button in the popover. If it works it should connect to something like /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock and speech-dispatcher should produce speech. I'm not sure how the host XDG runtime directory is/can be exposed in Snap, but basically it just needs access to that .sock file on the host.
Okay, I will give you the necessary changes, within a week. Will it be okay?