[Kde-accessibility] Text to Speech problems

[david powell]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 9:41 pm, Jeremy wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 14:23:13 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > How does one actuate the text to speech function of KDE? The only way
> > that I see is to copy text to Kmouth. Can other KDE apps perform this
> > function? How about non-KDE apps, such as Firefox and Open Office?
> >
> > Note that the speech test in Kcontrol works, but Kmouth is silent for
> > me. How can I troubleshoot it? Also, how can I add different voices?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://what-is-what.com
> > http://gibberish.co.il
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> >
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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> Settings -> Regional & Accessibility -> Text to Speech
>
> easiest is to set it to speak notifications from the notifications tab.  I
> set mine to speak Konversation messages so I can listen to irc while
> working, etc.  You can choose the voices in the talkers tab.
>
> Of course all of this is assuming you are meaning kde3, I'm not  sure what
> the state of kttsd is in kde4 svn or betas.
>
> Jeremy Whiting
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the speach api is documented on the kdeaccessibilaty website 
you can issue a dbus call to get kttsd to speak from an application
that is if you are any good at programming ,, although if theres a huck on the 
event you want to speak you could write a small script that would make that 
call to kttsd ,, 

for kde applications there is support for  knotify events to be spoken 
and kttsd plugins for kate , and konvi that will speak content

thats for kde3.x  i have not had chance to test it on kde4 as yet 

Dave
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