[Kde-accessibility] Text to Speech problems

[david powell]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 9:54 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 18/10/2007, Jeremy <jeremy at scitools.com> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks. I did configure it in the Kcontrol dialog that you mention.
> However, there is only one voice (American male) there. I'd like a
> nice Swedish or Spanish female, if theres a choice. :) Seriously,
> though, I'd like to try some more soothing voices. Where can I
> download them from?

http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/dbs_slt.html 
has some quite good quality voices 
the us slt female i find rather good 
although i rebuilt the version i have from the original 32k sample per second 
files , and manualy tuned the pitch marks ,, sounds better than the download 
version ,, unfortunalty that took me about 2 months to manage also its makes 
for a 256mb download and i dont have the bandwith to host it 

Dave

>
> With the exception of the test feature, which informs me that the
> program appears to be functioning properly, I cannot activate voice
> anywhere. Even Kmouth does not speak. And I don't see _how_ to get
> other programs, like Konqueror for instance, to speak the text of the
> screen. How is that done?
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
> 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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