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Subject: Re: How to configure Qtspeech
From: Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting () kde ! org>
Date: 2019-09-17 3:24:49
Message-ID: CADWV2K4E8jdDaACx-raw46kbHwwBas=jqctYFYMRNJYT_zy8bQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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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 <gustav97@gmail.com> 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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<div dir="ltr">Hello Gustav,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>Jeremy</div></div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM \
Gustav Degreef <<a href="mailto:gustav97@gmail.com">gustav97@gmail.com</a>> \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br> <br>
I am a regular user, visually impaired, but not blind. I need to be<br>
able to select text in various apps and have it read out, I don't need a<br>
screen reader. Qtspeech seems to be the replacement for Jovie which did<br>
the job nicely before, even with it's limitations and not great voices.<br>
<br>
But I can not find documentation for the regular user. How to configure<br>
Qtspeech? How to change voices, etc.? Is there a GUI like with Jovie? <br>
The only app on the desktop which seems to output voice by Qtspeech it<br>
is Okular. But the voice is garbled and very difficult to understand. <br>
Where do I go to change the settings to fix that? I have searched over<br>
and over again without success. Most of what I find seems for<br>
developers, is old or is only descriptive. Any pointers to where I can<br>
look would be very much appreciated.<br>
<br>
<br>
I am using opensuse 15.0, kde plasma version 5.12.8, frameworks 5.45.0,<br>
Qt 5.9.4, kernel 4.12.14-lp150.12.70-default<br>
<br>
Thanks, Gustav<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>
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