Re: How to configure Qtspeech

Hello Gustav,

Unfortunately QtSpeech by itself isn't going to solve the problem you're
trying to solve. QtSpeech is just a library that wraps speech sythesizers.
On linux it wraps speech-dispatcher itself (which in turn has modules for
various synthesizers like espeak-ng and festival.) In order to achieve the
functionality of Jovie we need a gui  or at a minimum a context menu
entry/thing in plasma to send text through QtSpeech. A short term solution
would be to use a terminal with spd-say command-line or if you prefer a gui
kmouth is an option. kmouth is a gui that you can type into and have it
speak. It used to use jovie to do so, but I think uses QtSpeech (I'll check
that in the morning, I know I had a branch of kmouth that used QtSpeech at
some point, not sure if it got merged/released). For configuring
speech-dispatcher you can edit the config files by hand with a text editor
or use the terminal based spd-conf command to walk through setting a
default synthesizer and volumes, etc. At some point in the near future it
would be good to develop a system-settings kde control module for
speech-dispatcher itself to have a gui, but that's not more than an idea in
my head so far... Hope that helps.

Wow, I really need to get some of these ideas implemented and out of my
head. They've been in there far too long. I appologize.

thanks,
Jeremy

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM Gustav Degreef <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a regular user, visually impaired, but not blind.  I need to be
> able to select text in various apps and have it read out, I don't need a
> screen reader.  Qtspeech seems to be the replacement for Jovie which did
> the job nicely before, even with it's limitations and not great voices.
>
> But I can not find documentation for the regular user.  How to configure
> Qtspeech?  How to change voices, etc.?  Is there a GUI like with Jovie?
> The only app on the desktop which seems to output voice by Qtspeech it
> is Okular.  But the voice is garbled and very difficult to understand.
> Where do I go to change the settings to fix that?  I have searched over
> and over again without success.  Most of what I find seems for
> developers, is old or is only descriptive.  Any pointers to where I can
> look would be very much appreciated.
>
>
> I am using opensuse 15.0, kde plasma version 5.12.8, frameworks 5.45.0,
> Qt 5.9.4, kernel 4.12.14-lp150.12.70-default
>
> Thanks, Gustav
>
>