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Moonbase59 · Yesterday, 10:19 AM

Yeah, I know, unfortunately that can’t work with SPD as it is.

Thanks for the short insight to the pipeline. I’m using Pipewire, so I installed qpwgraph to check what happens, and surely enough, it had selected an output called "System default (currently Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS Speaker)" but in reality connected to "Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output" (as shown by qpwgraph).

Setting it to "Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS Speaker" made it work.

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It’s unfortunate I now have to waste lots of space by having two sets of Piper and the TTS voices, but anyhow, thanks for making it easy for the rest of us, and chunking it so we can see nice highlighted reading progress. The direct voice download is also a nice feature for newbies.

Btw, can I simply throw my own ONNX voices (+ JSON) into the ~/.cache/calibre/piper-voices folder, or does it require more than that?

Yesterday, 10:19 AM	#3
Moonbase59 Addict Posts: 231 Karma: 1000244 Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: Germany Device: Tolino Vision 5, Tolino Tab 8", Pocketbook Era (16GB)	Yeah, I know, unfortunately that can’t work with SPD as it is. Thanks for the short insight to the pipeline. I’m using Pipewire, so I installed qpwgraph to check what happens, and surely enough, it had selected an output called "System default (currently Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS Speaker)" but in reality connected to "Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output" (as shown by qpwgraph). Setting it to "Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS Speaker" made it work. It’s unfortunate I now have to waste lots of space by having two sets of Piper and the TTS voices, but anyhow, thanks for making it easy for the rest of us, and chunking it so we can see nice highlighted reading progress. The direct voice download is also a nice feature for newbies. Btw, can I simply throw my own ONNX voices (+ JSON) into the ~/.cache/calibre/piper-voices folder, or does it require more than that? Last edited by Moonbase59; Yesterday at 10:23 AM.