Re: How to configure Qtspeech

Has anyone tried ktts yet?  Last time I read here, orca was recommended
until whichever fully operation screen reader kde upstream decided to
support became ready for prime time.

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Gustav Degreef wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:52:33
> From: Gustav Degreef <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: How to configure Qtspeech
>
> Thanks Jeremy.
> I tried Kmouth and I had the same problem that I had with Okular.? I
> finally heard what the problem is.? There are two voices
> simultaneously.? One with an English accent which sounds like e-speak
> and the other simultaneously sounds like English with a foreign accent,
> something "Germanic". They are not perfectly in sync so I can hear one
> sort of alternating with the other.? I don't know where to begin to sort
> it out.? Thanks for taking the time, Gustav
>
> On 9/16/19 11:26 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > Just did a quick check. It looks like kmouth does wrap QtSpeech. I'll
> > try it out tomorrow and see what it's lacking for your use case. Let
> > me know if you try it and find room for improvement also.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:24 PM Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     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]
> >     <mailto:[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
> >
>
>

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