[Kde-accessibility] Italian text-to-speech

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Friday 18 March 2005 09:26 am, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> Hello everybody, I just downloaded the KDE3.4 rpms for SuSE, and I've found
> the kmouth / ktts programs advertise they can speak italian.
>
> However, after a bit of toying with kmouth, that does not seem to be the
> case.

KTTS will speak Italian if you install the Italian voice for Festival 1.95.

Italian voices for Festival 1.95 beta are available at 

http://www.csrf.pd.cnr.it/TTS/It-FESTIVAL-download.htm.

If you get CRC errors when you unzip, try downloading again.

Install the Italian voice and make sure it is working in Festival.

festival
(voice.list)
<should show voice code lp_diphone>
(voice_lp_diphone)
(SayText "Hello")
(quit)

If that is working, start kttsmgr.  Click Talkers tab.  Click Add.  Choose 
Italian language and Festival synth.  It should automatically find and 
configure the Italian voice.

See the KTTS Handbook for more information.

>
> Is there some problem with my configuration, or is the italian translation
> just a stub?

Neither KMouth or KTTS do "translation".  If you install the Italian Festival 
voice, you must send it Italian text.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php