<div dir="ltr"><div>Gustav,</div><div><br></div><div>I forgot to answer this question. KMouth and Okular are both currently using QtSpeech yes. I'm surprised you are hearing multiple voices simultaneously, but I haven't tried qtspeech on linux in a bit. I'll give it a try and see if I can recreate that. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 6:52 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">Thanks Jeremy.<br>
I tried Kmouth and I had the same problem that I had with Okular. I<br>
finally heard what the problem is. There are two voices<br>
simultaneously. One with an English accent which sounds like e-speak<br>
and the other simultaneously sounds like English with a foreign accent,<br>
something "Germanic". They are not perfectly in sync so I can hear one<br>
sort of alternating with the other. I don't know where to begin to sort<br>
it out. Thanks for taking the time, Gustav<br>
<br>
On 9/16/19 11:26 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:<br>
> Just did a quick check. It looks like kmouth does wrap QtSpeech. I'll<br>
> try it out tomorrow and see what it's lacking for your use case. Let<br>
> me know if you try it and find room for improvement also.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:24 PM Jeremy Whiting <<a href="mailto:jpwhiting@kde.org" target="_blank">jpwhiting@kde.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jpwhiting@kde.org" target="_blank">jpwhiting@kde.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello Gustav,<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately QtSpeech by itself isn't going to solve the problem<br>
> you're trying to solve. QtSpeech is just a library that wraps<br>
> speech sythesizers. On linux it wraps speech-dispatcher itself<br>
> (which in turn has modules for various synthesizers like espeak-ng<br>
> and festival.) In order to achieve the functionality of Jovie we<br>
> need a gui or at a minimum a context menu entry/thing in plasma<br>
> to send text through QtSpeech. A short term solution would be to<br>
> use a terminal with spd-say command-line or if you prefer a gui<br>
> kmouth is an option. kmouth is a gui that you can type into and<br>
> have it speak. It used to use jovie to do so, but I think uses<br>
> QtSpeech (I'll check that in the morning, I know I had a branch of<br>
> kmouth that used QtSpeech at some point, not sure if it got<br>
> merged/released). For configuring speech-dispatcher you can edit<br>
> the config files by hand with a text editor or use the terminal<br>
> based spd-conf command to walk through setting a default<br>
> synthesizer and volumes, etc. At some point in the near future it<br>
> would be good to develop a system-settings kde control module for<br>
> speech-dispatcher itself to have a gui, but that's not more than<br>
> an idea in my head so far... Hope that helps.<br>
><br>
> Wow, I really need to get some of these ideas implemented and out<br>
> of my head. They've been in there far too long. I appologize.<br>
><br>
> thanks,<br>
> Jeremy<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM Gustav Degreef <<a href="mailto:gustav97@gmail.com" target="_blank">gustav97@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gustav97@gmail.com" target="_blank">gustav97@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I am a regular user, visually impaired, but not blind. I<br>
> need to be<br>
> able to select text in various apps and have it read out, I<br>
> don't need a<br>
> screen reader. Qtspeech seems to be the replacement for<br>
> Jovie which did<br>
> the job nicely before, even with it's limitations and not<br>
> great voices.<br>
><br>
> But I can not find documentation for the regular user. How<br>
> to configure<br>
> Qtspeech? How to change voices, etc.? Is there a GUI like<br>
> with Jovie? <br>
> The only app on the desktop which seems to output voice by<br>
> Qtspeech it<br>
> is Okular. But the voice is garbled and very difficult to<br>
> understand. <br>
> Where do I go to change the settings to fix that? I have<br>
> 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<br>
> 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,<br>
> frameworks 5.45.0,<br>
> Qt 5.9.4, kernel 4.12.14-lp150.12.70-default<br>
><br>
> Thanks, Gustav<br>
><br>
<br>
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