[Kde-accessibility] Speech Plugin

[Alvin Smith]

On Monday 03 January 2005 10:29 am, Mauricio Bahamonde wrote:
> Hi,
>  A few days ago, Duncan told me about bug:95529 and asked me if I would
> like to try to make a plugin for that because it was relatively simple to
> do. As i'm new to KDE Development, I agreed because it would be a great
> oportunity to learn more and get more involved in KDE, so I started writing
> it, and I think I had success, the plugin does what it's expected to do, no
> more, no less ;-)
> Well, the plugin basically "Speaks the incoming messages" through KTTSD, so
> you can be working and not paying attention to kopete, and if you receive a
> message, you will hear it through your speakers ;-) I think it may be
> useful too for disabled people.
>
> For this plugin to work, you need:
> - A speech synthesis engine (Like festival)
> - Recent kdelibs from CVS HEAD
> - kde-accessibility module
>
> I think that's the minimium requirements. You can check
> http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php for more info.
>
> Once kttsd is working, the plugin should work with no problems.
> You can find the plugin at http://ktown.kde.cl/~elkrammer/kde/speech.tar.gz
> Untar that file in kdenetwork/kopete/plugins, it should create a
> subdirectory called speech.
> Then edit kdenetwork/kopete/plugins/Makefile.am and in the SUBDIRS line,
> add "speech" without quotes. Well, I guess you guys know this better than
> me ;-)
>
> Please, give me feedback on this.
>
> Greetings,


Mauricio,

Please don't assume everyone on this list is a developer.  I am not. :-) I am 
just evaluating the software and trying to help.

That being said, looking at your instructions, does changing the 
kdenetwork/kopete/plugins/Makefile.am mean that I will need to re-compile 
kopete?  

The problem is that I have a Debian system and kopete was not compiled from 
source...

KDE version: 3.3.1
Release:  2.6.8-1-686

-- 
peace,
Alvin Smith
http://www.alvinsmith.com