The reader doesn't support Hungarian [or other languages]

[ill13]

          Yes, now it seems to be working, thank you! Unfortunately, it turns out that the reader doesn't support Hungarian, so I can't use it unless I have a parameter to specify the target language. :(

Originally posted by @mykeehu in https://github.com/ill13/SpeakLocal/issues/2#issuecomment-1721465119

[ill13]

That's more of an OS thing. Your OS needs the language packs installed

So this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/download-language-pack-for-speech-24d06ef3-ca09-ddcc-70a0-63606fd16394 and this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65977155/change-pyttsx3-language . Can address that issue on Windows 10.

After you've installed the Hungarian language pack -and in your current and specific case all you'd likely have to do is change the 0 at line 35 in voices[0] to 1 or 2.

self.engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id) # Set playback to the default voice

This is assuming you only have the default win10 language packs + Hungarian installed.

I'll look into adding a dropdown to enumerate and list the available voices that are installed on the given OS.

[mykeehu]

It looks exciting! There is only one voice in Hungarian (Szabolcs), no female voice, so 0 is supposed to be good. Unfortunately I don't understand the Stackoverflow link, because I'm not a programmer, but maybe there is something wrong there?

[ill13]

Ok, the ability to select a voice from the hosts installed voices has been added.

Let me know if it works for you

[mykeehu]

This is very interesting. I only see English. While in the Windows I have Hungarian installed:

and here is my sound settings:

[ill13]

This might be a Microsoft quirk. I think you may have to add some languages.

[mykeehu]

The solution was different because Hungarian was added by default, but the registry entry was missing. I'm adding this to the Hungarian language here.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_HU-HU_SZABOLCS_11.0]
@="Microsoft Szabolcs - Hungarian (Hungary)"
"40E"="Microsoft Szabolcs - Hungarian (Hungary)"
"CLSID"="{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}"
"LangDataPath"=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,\
  00,70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,\
  65,00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,\
  00,5c,00,68,00,75,00,2d,00,48,00,55,00,5c,00,4d,00,53,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,\
  4c,00,6f,00,63,00,48,00,75,00,48,00,55,00,2e,00,64,00,61,00,74,00,00,00
"VoicePath"=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,\
  70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,65,\
  00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,\
  5c,00,68,00,75,00,2d,00,48,00,55,00,5c,00,4d,00,31,00,30,00,33,00,38,00,53,\
  00,7a,00,61,00,62,00,6f,00,6c,00,63,00,73,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_HU-HU_SZABOLCS_11.0\Attributes]
"Version"="11.0"
"Language"="40E"
"Gender"="Male"
"Age"="Adult"
"SharedPronunciation"=""
"Name"="Microsoft Szabolcs"
"Vendor"="Microsoft"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\SPEECH\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_HU-HU_SZABOLCS_11.0]
@="Microsoft Szabolcs - Hungarian (Hungary)"
"40E"="Microsoft Szabolcs - Hungarian (Hungary)"
"CLSID"="{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}"
"LangDataPath"=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,\
  00,70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,\
  65,00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,\
  00,5c,00,68,00,75,00,2d,00,48,00,55,00,5c,00,4d,00,53,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,\
  4c,00,6f,00,63,00,48,00,75,00,48,00,55,00,2e,00,64,00,61,00,74,00,00,00
"VoicePath"=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,\
  70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,65,\
  00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,\
  5c,00,68,00,75,00,2d,00,48,00,55,00,5c,00,4d,00,31,00,30,00,33,00,38,00,53,\
  00,7a,00,61,00,62,00,6f,00,6c,00,63,00,73,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\SPEECH\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_HU-HU_SZABOLCS_11.0\Attributes]
"Version"="11.0"
"Language"="40E"
"Gender"="Male"
"Age"="Adult"
"SharedPronunciation"=""
"Name"="Microsoft Szabolcs"
"Vendor"="Microsoft"

True, the sound is still not perfect, but it is more intelligible, thank you! One more suggestion: if you have several languages to choose from, you might want to add a regenerate last comment voice button so that when I switch, it will regenerate the sound again. Useful in case I forgot to switch.

[ill13]

I'll look into adding the ability to change the mp3 bitrate.

[mykeehu]

It would be very good if it could improve the sound quality, because now it is still distorted here and there and does not "read" clearly.

[ill13]

moved to issue #4