Read-Text Extension being weird on Ubuntu

[adaddinsane]

(I have checked other posts but none cover this situation.)

My use-case is that I’m a fiction writer and part of my editing process involves getting a machine to read the work aloud, because they don’t make any assumptions about what’s written. I was using an online service but it’s expensive.

I’m using LO 25.8 Writer on Ubuntu 24.04 and have installed the Read-Text extension.

I have speech-dispatcher with rhvoice installed and this does work from the command line.

I have configured Read-Text to work with speech-dispatcher according to the instructions but all that happens, regardless of anything I try is that it pushes the text to Google Translate.

(As a new user I’m not allowed to include the shot of Google Translate with this text in it.)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[EarnestAl]

Related post at https://askubuntu.com/questions/1566434/text-to-speech-for-a-writer
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If LibreOffice is installed as a Snap then I suppose it is sandboxed and cannot access rhvoice. It might be worth pursuing that avenue in Ubuntu forum

[adaddinsane]

That’s an interesting point about the sandboxing, yes it is installed with snap. For now I’ve uninstalled LO completely, and purged it with “apt”, as I had some leftovers from a previous apt install being awkward.

So that’s all clean. We’ll see what happens on my other post and come back to this if needed.