Re: How to configure Qtspeech

ktts is what jovie came from. It's much much older and does the same thing
(ktts just got renamed to jovie when I refactored ktts to use
speech-dispatcher instead of a bunch of it's own synthesizer modules).

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:24 PM Gustav Degreef <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not sure what kits is.  Gnome does not easily provide the functionality
> of Jovie.  I don't want/need a screen reader, just text-to-speech
> capability from the clipboard, from selected text, etc.  I've tried Orca
> on KDE and it's not simple.  Gustav.
>
> On 9/17/19 9:31 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > 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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