How to configure Okular to use SVOX pico for its "read text" functionality?

Okular has a nice read text functionality that by default uses espeak as a backend. As espeak has a rather robotic voice, I would prefer to use SVOX pico.

1 Answer

First ensure that "read-text" functions properly. If not:

sudo apt-get install speech-dispatcher qtspeech5-speechd-plugin speech-dispatcher-pico

Then, configure speech dispatcher by editing the file speechd.conf

sudo nano /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf

comment out the line

DefaultModule espeak-ng

like this

#DefaultModule espeak-ng

and add a line like the following

DefaultModule pico

The above works nice for English. It would be nice to also have a solution for multilingual environments.