How to configure Qtspeech

[Gustav Degreef]

Not sure what kits is.  Gnome does not easily provide the functionality
of Jovie.  I don't want/need a screen reader, just text-to-speech
capability from the clipboard, from selected text, etc.  I've tried Orca
on KDE and it's not simple.  Gustav.

On 9/17/19 9:31 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Has anyone tried ktts yet?  Last time I read here, orca was recommended
> until whichever fully operation screen reader kde upstream decided to
> support became ready for prime time.
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Gustav Degreef wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:52:33
>> From: Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com>
>> To: kde-accessibility at kde.org
>> Subject: Re: How to configure Qtspeech
>>
>> 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
>>>
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