muflone
commented
11 years ago I can confirm the issue on Ubuntu 12.04 with Gespeaker 0.8.1 (installed from this PPA [1]). What I see though is slightly different:
- Whenever I select a voice that is marked with a 'cross' (as in 'not available') then upon clicking play, the 'stop/pause' buttons can be activated without trouble. This works for 'english' and 'english-us'.
- Whenever I select a voice that is marked with a 'checkbox' (as in 'available') then upon clicking play, the 'stop/pause' buttons can NOT be activated. This happens for 'en-french' or 'english-mb-en1' or 'us-mbrola-2'.
Unfortunately not being able to stop playing a text is somewhat of a deal-breaker to using Gespeaker.
[1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/experimental
Ubuntu 12.04 [LTS] Gespeaker 0.8.1 GNOME III
Upon loading Mbrola English mb-en1, or any voice for that matter, pause & stop are greyed out. I have to wait for dialogue to finish before pressing play again.