Open delargewiu opened 2 weeks ago
Hi @delargewiu, thanks for your bug report!
Can you try going to this website and confirming if you see any voices listed in the dropdown?
If you don't see any voices it means you don't have a way to do TTS on your machines. You'll need to install speech-dispatcher as well as some kind of engine like espeak.
I got the same bug too (after trying to install it for the first time). And there are 6 voices listed in the dropdown normally for me.
I used Zotero 7.0 on NixOS btw (zotero --version
gave Zotero Zotero 115.9.1esr
)
@HynDuf due to the different distros I'll sort this in a new issue (it may be that the solutions end up being the same but just to not confuse things keeping them as separate seems easier)
@delargewiu
Also, are you using Zotero in flatpak/some other sandboxed environment?
As mentioned in this issue (comment), Firefox (which Zotero is based on) was missing support for speech-dispatcher until version 123 (Z7 is based on v115 ESR)
@ImperialSquid
I had Zotero installed using apt from a repository. I purged that and am now running from the extracted tarball as described on the Zotero website. Issue was still there. I was able to go to the website and see the voices and use the tool. Still had the issue. My system did have speech-dispatcher but not espeak so I installed it. I still have the issue.
Hmmm, annoying that it wasn't an easy fix but oh well lol
In Zotero, from the top menu bar, go to Tools > Developer > Error Console, then paste the following code in and run it:
var utt = new window.SpeechSynthesisUtterance("test")
utt.onstart = () => {console.log("start")}
utt.onend = () => {console.log("end")}
utt.onerror = (error) => {console.log(error.error)}
window.speechSynthesis.speak(utt)
Let me know what output you see, may need to give it a couple of seconds for something to show up
Future versions of ZoTTS will have better error reporting ZoTTS should have better error reporting in the latest version, if you see a cause in the popup, you can also let me know what that says
Checklist
Zotero version
7.0.3
ZoTTS version
1.2.1
OS
Linux
OS (specific)
Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 6.2.9, Linux Kernel 6.8.0-40-generic
Steps to reproduce
Expected behaviour
Open with ZoTTS GUI buttons available
Actual behaviour
Zotero opens with a dialog box that states, "ZoTTS, ERROR: ZoTTS failed to load TTS engines. Please submit a bug report for assistance." The GUI buttons for ZoTTS are also missing. This issue is identical on two different computers running the above-stated operating system.