How to configure Qtspeech

[Jeremy Whiting]

Just did a quick check. It looks like kmouth does wrap QtSpeech. I'll try
it out tomorrow and see what it's lacking for your use case. Let me know if
you try it and find room for improvement also.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:24 PM Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello Gustav,
>
> Unfortunately QtSpeech by itself isn't going to solve the problem you're
> trying to solve. QtSpeech is just a library that wraps speech sythesizers.
> On linux it wraps speech-dispatcher itself (which in turn has modules for
> various synthesizers like espeak-ng and festival.) In order to achieve the
> functionality of Jovie we need a gui  or at a minimum a context menu
> entry/thing in plasma to send text through QtSpeech. A short term solution
> would be to use a terminal with spd-say command-line or if you prefer a gui
> kmouth is an option. kmouth is a gui that you can type into and have it
> speak. It used to use jovie to do so, but I think uses QtSpeech (I'll check
> that in the morning, I know I had a branch of kmouth that used QtSpeech at
> some point, not sure if it got merged/released). For configuring
> speech-dispatcher you can edit the config files by hand with a text editor
> or use the terminal based spd-conf command to walk through setting a
> default synthesizer and volumes, etc. At some point in the near future it
> would be good to develop a system-settings kde control module for
> speech-dispatcher itself to have a gui, but that's not more than an idea in
> my head so far... Hope that helps.
>
> Wow, I really need to get some of these ideas implemented and out of my
> head. They've been in there far too long. I appologize.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a regular user, visually impaired, but not blind.  I need to be
>> able to select text in various apps and have it read out, I don't need a
>> screen reader.  Qtspeech seems to be the replacement for Jovie which did
>> the job nicely before, even with it's limitations and not great voices.
>>
>> But I can not find documentation for the regular user.  How to configure
>> Qtspeech?  How to change voices, etc.?  Is there a GUI like with Jovie?
>> The only app on the desktop which seems to output voice by Qtspeech it
>> is Okular.  But the voice is garbled and very difficult to understand.
>> Where do I go to change the settings to fix that?  I have searched over
>> and over again without success.  Most of what I find seems for
>> developers, is old or is only descriptive.  Any pointers to where I can
>> look would be very much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> I am using opensuse 15.0, kde plasma version 5.12.8, frameworks 5.45.0,
>> Qt 5.9.4, kernel 4.12.14-lp150.12.70-default
>>
>> Thanks, Gustav
>>
>>
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