[text-to-speech-applet@cardsurf] Please give support for espeak-ng engine

[Nokia808]

 * Applet version/Build date (to be found in "About.." or in "metadata.json")
 * Cinnamon version: 4.0.10
 * Distribution: Fedora 30
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used: Hybrid VGA (Intel Corporation HD Graphic 5500 + Radeon R7 M265 2GB)
 * Snippet or attachment of ~/.cinnamon/glass.log
 * Snippet or attachment of ~/.xsession-errors

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@cardsurf

Issue

Hi. I'm a Fedora Linux user. I use Fedora Linux 30 X64 bit Cinnamon edition. I installed your applet & activated it, but it show me error message said what mean:

"There is missed package. Please install espeak package"

Dears, on Fedora 30, espeak is not used by default & it is already replaced by new tts engine which is "espeak-ng" that it's repository is: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng

Please can you, kindly, give support for espeak-ng engine ? Currently the applet does not appear in Cinnamon panel at all, inspite of activating it !

Steps to reproduce

Install applet on Fedora, then activate it.

Expected behaviour

Applet should appear in Cinnamon panel & work with tts engine other than espeak, like espeak-ng

Other information

I already opened this issue in original repository of this applet: https://gitlab.com/cardsurf/text-to-speech-applet/issues/1

[Nokia808]

@cardsurf Hi. Great work ! I receive new version & I changed the command from: "espeak -ven+m5 -a 100 -p 50 -s 175" (the default command) into: "espeak-ng -ven+m5 -a 100 -p 50 -s 175" & it worked !

Just if you can help me further: does what I did by change espeak" to "espeak-ng" is correct ? What about other parameters: "-ven+m5 -a 100 -p 50 -s 175" ? Leave them without change ? Are they compatible with espeak-ng or some of them need modifications ?

I have no experience with enspeak or enspeak-ng command line options & this is the 1st time to me to use TTS utility on Linux ........

[cardsurf]

@Nokia808 Changing from espeak to espeak-ng is enough. According to espeak-ng project README.md file the command line arguments are compatible with espeak command:

The espeak-ng binaries use the same command-line options as espeak, with several additions to provide new functionality from espeak-ng such as specifying the output audio device name to use.