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

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Thursday 10 April 2008 08:20:37 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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
>
> 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?


You'll want http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/bin/pclinux/mbr301h.zip if 
you are on linux, and also one of the voice files from 
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html depending on your language.  Some 
distro's package the first, and also make mbrola use in festival automatic (I 
can't remember which ones at the moment).  Hope that helps...

Jeremy