Spd-say does not pronounce the argument

handyman_hank

I've written a script and the first part does not work: #!/bin/bash spd-say "What do you want?" read a if [ "$a" == "water" ] || [ "$a" == "Water" ] then spd-say "Take the bottle." else spd-say "Sorry, we don't have water, choose something else." fi spd-say "Please pay the money." read b if [ "$b" == "yes" ] || [ "$b" == "Yes" ] then spd-say "Thanks." else spd-say "Sorry!" fi When i execute the code the first part asks the question but...

Originally asked by user833907 on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

For those who don't know (I didn't either): spd-say reads a given text aloud (e.g. if you cannot read yourself or like listening instead of reading). Your script looks fine but you have fallen in a trap: spd-say doesn't wait until it has spoken the given text. Instead, the command (almost) immediately returns and keeps talking in the background. If you run it a second time without waiting for the first talking to complete (like in your script), then it will simply talk over the first part. To prevent this, use the -w (or --wait ) switch. Then spd-say will return only once it has completed talking. See the man page for further switches. So instead of spd-say " Sorry, we don't have water,...

Full answer by PerlDuck: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1041583 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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