[Kde-accessibility] jovie and mbrola

[Jeremy Whiting]

Bob,

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.  Unfortunately KDE3's KTTS and KDE4's
Jovie are quite different,  KTTS handled talking to the synthesizers by
itself with plugins, whereas Jovie only sends data to speech-dispatcher and
it does all the work of sending data to festival or espeak or whatnot.  In
the past I've used jovie with mbrola voices but I think I had to use
festival and configure it to use the mbrola voices.  I'm surprised that
Jovie can't see the festival synthesizer, but I haven't tried that in quite
some time, so I'll give it a try this week sometime and see what might be
going wrong there.  Could you send me the contents of your speechd.conf
files so I can see how speech-dispatcher has been set up?  They are located
at /etc/speech-dispatcher and ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf here on my system.

thanks,
Jeremy


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Bob Stia <rnr at pasco.org> wrote:

> Hello KDE people,
>
> I am new to this list and hoping my first post will reach somebody.
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai am legally blind and find it almost impossible to read
> very large fonts and type ccoherebtly.
>
> I eun two versions of openSSUSE. 11.3 with KDE3 aba 12.2 with LDE4. I have
> installed Festival and espeak on both systems. I have also installed mbrola
> and CMU voices (correcctly, I hope) on both systems.
>
> In 11.3 KDE3 uses KTTS with Feestival. In 12.2 KDE4 usea Jovie. Both work,
> but
> only with their own horrible barely intelligible voices. I cannot get KTTS
> to
> seee the espeak synthesizer nor Jovie to see the Festical synthesizer.
> Neither czn see the mbrola or CMU voices.
>
> It is important to me to get these TTS screen readerss working
> satisfactorily
> as my blindness progressees.
>
> Thank You
>
> Bob S
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