[Kde-accessibility] KTTS and GAIM

[Payne]

Gary Cramblitt wrote:

Thanks, very much that what I was looking for.  Does anyone know if 
there are clearer voices?

Payne
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 05:49, Payne wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering is there way to get KTTS to work with GAIM, I need to
>> return my mac, and I use SUSE 10.1 on my home computer, but I need to
>> have KTTS or some program read out the messages from GAIM as they come
>> in like Growl does.
>>     
>
> I'm not familiar with GAIM; don't use it, so I can't say.  To interface with 
> KTTS, you must use DCOP, either programmatically or via the dcop command-line 
> utility.  For example
>
> dcop kttsd KSpeech sayText "Hello World" 0
>
> For more info on all the commands, see 
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/interfaces/kspeech/html/classKSpeech.html
>
> If there is a scripting capability available in GAIM, you would write a script 
> that executes the dcop command (possibly via a shell).
>
> You can also get KTTS to work with any KDE application that emits KNotify 
> events, but since GAIM is not a KDE application..
>
> BTW, kopete already has such a script.  See
>
> http://phantomsdad.blogspot.com/2006/05/three-advances-on-tts-and.html
>
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