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Hallo,

I hope i am writing in the right section... I am trying to get the TTS on my Mint working, but i am stucked... when i let the computer read a text (for exampe in Gespeak), it doesnt work. I recognised that under options there is no Language/Voice selected. So I installed some languages, but allthougt in specified directory you can find the speech file, you cant open it with Gespeak :/ So i searched the web for a solution tried different, even to change the path inside EspeakFrontend.py, but none worked for me

Had someone the same problem, how did you fix it?

regards luke

Gespeaker looks for voices in two steps. Only in the second step gespeaker looks to usr/share/mbrola for voices.
The problem was, in my case, the first step. I replaced line 179 of EspeakFrontend.py: /usr/share/espeak-data -> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/espeak-data and it worked. (You can also try /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-data.)