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

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/04/2008, Jeremy Whiting <jeremy at scitools.com> wrote:
> 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...

Thanks, Jeremy. I downloaded a voice (cmu_us_slt_arctic) and put it in
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/ (Ubuntu distro). kttsmgr finds it
and I can configure a speaker with it, however, the voice is unchanged
from the kal_diphone voice. I have restarted KDE with no change.

I then returned to this thread and see that I must install mbrola
separately. I installed mbrola-linux-i386 to ~/bin (which is in my
path) and I can run it from the cli:

feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ mbrola-linux-i386
 MBROLA 3.01h - speech synthesizer

However, mbrola does not show up in kttsmgr. What must be done? Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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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?