Re: How to configure Qtspeech - actually configuring speech-dispatcher

Hi Jereymy

I think Jovie had no default shortcuts,  we set them ourselves .

Will klipper have a queue ? So you can have more then one thing 
scheduled to be spoken one after the other?


On 9/28/19 3:56 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Awesome, good to know.
>
> Also, I got a good start on the klipper ability to speak clipboard 
> today and found there are a couple of options available from what I 
> can tell. I can either make it speak the clipboard, speak the current 
> text selection (like macos option-escape does when enabled) or both 
> each with their own shortcut key. I'm thinking I'll make it disabled 
> by default but when enabled both actions will be available with a 
> default shortcut of meta-escape for speak selected text and some other 
> keyboard shortcut for speak clipboard. Are there any preferred 
> shortcuts you all use with Jovie to speak clipboard? I figured I'd 
> make stop and pause/resume actions also like I did for okular, but 
> likely without keyboard shortcuts by default for these, though I'm 
> open to suggestions if there's a reason to have a default shortcut for 
> these also.
>
> Since plasma 5.17 feature freeze already happened the klipper changes 
> wont be in plasma until 5.18 which freezes in January of next year 
> unfortunately, but it will be good to have this Jovie replacement in 
> place I think.
>
> BR,
> Jeremy
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 6:41 PM Gustav Degreef <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks a lot Jeremy.  I am about to travel, so I will post back
>     about my
>     results in a bit.
>
>     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
>
>     Gustav
>
>     On 9/26/19 10:32 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>     > Hi Gustav,
>     >
>     > Just out of curiosity, which distribution and version of linux
>     are you
>     > using?
>     >
>     > To answer your question though, crontab is an application that runs
>     > things at different times on a unix based system. crontab -e is a
>     > command to edit the cron table of commands. Running crontab -e and
>     > adding the line you mentioned:
>     >
>     > @restart /usr/bin/festival --server
>     >
>     > will make festival --server run at each boot of the computer I
>     believe.
>     >
>     > Hope that helps. Another possibility according to arch linux's wiki
>     > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#Can't_open_/dev/dsp is
>     > to add some lines to the festival configuration to allow it to open
>     > the /dev/dsp
>     >
>     > BR,
>     > Jeremy
>     >
>     > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:25 PM Gustav Degreef
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hello folks,
>     >
>     >     I edited this thread some to make it easier to follow my
>     current post.
>     >     It is not directed at Simion, though his comments are helpful to
>     >     make my
>     >     post clearer.Â
>     >     As a result of these discussions I have more clearly understood
>     >     the role
>     >     of speech-dispatcher.  Since will be used with Qtspeech, it
>     makes
>     >     sense
>     >     to work with it.   So,  Perching with google  I
>     understood how
>     >     central
>     >     speech-dispatcher is to linux TTS.  I tried again to configure
>     >     Festival
>     >     with speech-dispatcher.  I want to try and configure a
>     different
>     >     voice.Â
>     >     I wan to try and experiment with different voices. Espeak
>     is OK,
>     >     but I
>     >     feel I have to move forward.  But again I am stuck.  Here is
>     >     where I am at.
>     >
>     >     I could never get speech output even on the CLI.
>     >
>     >     The error I would get was -festival: can't open /dev/dsp
>     >
>     >     It is due to a bug.   The workaround is:
>     >     Create ~/.festivalrc with the following content
>     >
>     >     ;use ALSA
>     >     (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
>     >     (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16
>     -r $SR
>     >     $FILE")
>     >
>     >
>     >     I then needed to configure speech-dispatcher, so I ran:
>     >
>     >     spd-conf
>     >
>     >     as a regular user.  It creates the speech-dispatcher global
>     server
>     >     configuration file:
>     >
>     >     in ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/|speechd.conf|
>     >
>     >     This configures speech-dispatcher (interactively) with a
>     number of
>     >     variables, the default voice is espeak.
>     >
>     >     I then edit speechd.conf, which allows for many different
>     >     voices.  I change:
>     >
>     >     |#AddModule "espeak" "sd_espeak" "espeak.conf"||
>     >     |
>     >     |AddModule "festival" "sd_festival" "festival.conf"|
>     >     |
>     >     |
>     >     |and|
>     >     ||||
>     >
>     >     |#DefaultModule espeak |
>     >
>     >     |DefaultModule festival The next step I do not understand: "|We
>     >     need to run |festival| as a server in order to make
>     >     |speech-dispatcher| use it as default. We can do that by adding
>     >     the following line at the end of the file that's open when
>     we use the
>     >     command: |sudo crontab -e|:
>     >
>     >     |@reboot /usr/bin/festival --server"|
>     >
>     >     |||I can't understand the last step.  I've never used crontab
>     >     fore, any
>     >     help would be appreciated, Gustav.|
>     >     ||
>     >
>     >     ||
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 9/22/19 9:29 AM, Simion wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >     snip
>     >
>     >     > As I said I suggest to get used of using faster and faster
>     voices,
>     >     > your family will understand and you will read same texts 2
>     times
>     >     > faster so you gain time, at that speed any voice will
>     sound robotic,
>     >     > this would not work if you want other to listen with you (but
>     >     you can
>     >     > have a normal speed and a fast speed talker in jovie)
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > On 9/22/19 2:54 PM, Gustav Degreef wrote:
>     >     >>
>     >     >> snip
>     >     >>
>     >     >>  From what you and others are saying and from what I've
>     >     read, I think I
>     >     >> understand better.  Correct me if I am wrong, but
>     don't
>     >     you have
>     >     >> to tell
>     >     >> speech-dispatcher which voice (e-speak, festival, etc.) to
>     >     use?  If I
>     >     >> can figure out how to tell speech-dispatcher which voice
>     to use
>     >     then
>     >     >> Jovie (or Qtspeech) will then output my choice? 
>     I have
>     >     looked
>     >     >> into it,
>     >     >> and there are several (about 6 different) voices I can use in
>     >     Linux.
>     >     >>
>     >     >>
>     >     >>
>     >
>