kde and speech

[Jude DaShiell]

I needed to build qtatspi and got it installed.  What app can I use to 
test it and what should I listen for iwith respect to output to test the 
build of the app?

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Jeremy Whiting wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:33:32
> From: Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> To: Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com>
> Cc: kde-accessibility at kde.org
> Subject: Re: kde and speech
> 
> Hi Gustav,
>
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/11/2017 11:58 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>>> Jovie is not a screen reader. It is only useful to speak notifications
>>> from clock, etc.
>> snip
>>>  Orca is the recommended screen reader on plasma systems.
>> Perhaps Jovie is not technically a screen reader, but it is well
>> integrated into Okular and some other KDE applications.   In PDF files,
>> with Okular I select the text and right click.  A context menu opens
>> that has an option to read out the text.  In other applications, like
>> the browser, word processor or e-mail client, I just select the text,
>> then right click the Jovie icon in the system tray, and select the
>> option to read out the selected text, stop reading, etc.  I am seriously
>> visually impaired for more than 3 years, Jovie in a sense has saved my
>> life.  I tried four years back to integrate Orca into my KDE desktop and
>> I found it too difficult and cumbersome.
>>
>> It would be very helpful to know where instructions are that describe
>> how to integrate Orca into KDE and use it as easily as Jovie can be
>> used.  A number of people who hear the output of Jovie comment that the
>> voices are terrible.  It would be great if Orca is a good replacement
>> with better sounding voices.   Gustav.
>>
>
> I'm glad Jovie has been helpful for you. I need an excuse to get back into
> KDE development again, this might be just the thing to get me there. Can I
> ask you a few questions to make sure the stuff I add/suggest is usable for
> you quickly?
>
> 1. What distribution of linux are you using with Jovie?
> 2. Which version of that distribution are you running?
>
> I am very confident I can create functionality in plasma or try with orca
> to get the functionality that you are used to. Orca and Jovie both use
> Speech-Dispatcher to do the speech synthesis which uses espeak by default
> but can be easily changed to use mbrola which sounds slightly better or
> pico (the same voices from Android) if pico is available on your
> distribution. Once I know the distribution you are using I can guide you
> through setting up Jovie/Speech-dispatcher to use these better quality
> voices then see what we need to do to get orca working well also and/or the
> Jovie "speak text from clipboard" functionality in plasma itself using
> QtSpeech.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>

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