How to configure Qtspeech

[Gustav Degreef]

Thanks Jeremy.
I tried Kmouth and I had the same problem that I had with Okular.  I
finally heard what the problem is.  There are two voices
simultaneously.  One with an English accent which sounds like e-speak
and the other simultaneously sounds like English with a foreign accent,
something "Germanic". They are not perfectly in sync so I can hear one
sort of alternating with the other.  I don't know where to begin to sort
it out.  Thanks for taking the time, Gustav

On 9/16/19 11:26 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>