[Kde-accessibility] Please Give Me a Screen Reader for KDE

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/02/2008, Jeremy <jeremy at scitools.com> wrote:
>  There are a few opensource text to speech systems. KDE has a kttsd package
>  that wraps most all of them, and can be used directly in kde apps like
>  konqueror, and such.  I find the best sounding voice by installing festival,
>  mbrola voices, and using kttsd to manage the jobs.
>
>  MBrola website is here: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
>  Festival is usually a package your distro provides, as is kttsd.
>
>  Let us know if you need any tips on setting them up or if you have suggestions
>  for their improvement.
>

Which file from the mbrola page contains additional voices for
festival? I have the standard festival voices that came with my
distro, but they sound terrible. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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