Exporting Linux project with text-to-speech: no voices found

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Exporting Linux project with text-to-speech: no voices found

NightBlade

Godot 4 has a workable text-to-speech API under DisplayServer. This works on Linux, provided you install the requisite third-party libs. In my case, on Manjaro, this included installing spd-say, festival, and espeakup.

When I got text-to-speech working, I then exported my project for Linux. Running the executable works fine (the text-to-speech works). When I gave it to someone else who didn't have the right libraries installed, they got an error (no voices available).

Is it possible to create a self-contained export for Linux that includes everything needed for text-to-speech to work?

NightBlade

Got a detailed answer from Akien over on Twitter:

The TL;DR version is that it's difficult to do because you need to package up the dependent libraries and handle how they're loaded (perhaps environment variables or something else).

My experience talking to blind players is that they almost all use Windows (with NVDA), so Liux is not something I'm going to worry about right now.

Megalomaniak

deploying via flatpak or snap might be an option, but I suspect it's not much easier.