How to configure Qtspeech

[Gustav Degreef]

Hi Simon,

Thanks a lot. I found how to configure the shortcuts.  I configured 4 -
Read clipboard, Stop, Pause, Resume.  All work fine except Pause.  It
works only 20% of the time.  I often have to repeat the shortcut over
and over to get it to pause, and often it does not pause.  When it does,
Resume always works.  This is the same behavior I have always had with
the tray icon and why I had given up trying to use it.  If your fixes
fix this then I would certainly be very pleased.  I don't need any other
functionality other than the voices.  People are always around and using
the headphone  adds another cable to my already cluttered desk.  I would
still very much like to be able to at least TRY different voices.  But
the documentation for doing this with Jovie, has been very hard to come
by and I have not been able to find any that really describes how to do
it.  Only a bit here and there of partial information that I can not put
together.  Thanks for yours and others efforts, Gustav

On 9/18/19 4:31 AM, Simion wrote:
> Hi Gustav,
> You can use keyboard shortcuts to control Jovie, you need to create
> this shortcuts, you can do it in system Settings, keyboard shortucts,
> Global section I think. I have a keyboard with an extra row of Media
> keys so I use those buttons . I use a voice with max speed (I had to
> train by incrementally increasing it) so it is weird for others to
> understand, the solution is to use headphones when others are around.
> I tried finding more natural sounding voices but I discovered that I
> prefer  faster speed so I can read things faster and the voice is not
> important at all.
>
> My commit messages  in Github explain what bugs fix, if you are not
> affected by those you can use the version from your repos.
>
> The only issue I have now is in this scenario:
> I open say 3 articles  in browser, use reader mode if needed, copy
> paste them in clipboard one by one and have jovie read the clipboard
>
> so now I have the 1,2,3 articles in a list to be read and Jovie is
> reading the1st one,
> if I use Pause and then Resume while reading article 1 , it reads
> Article 2, 3 and finaly it continues to finish Article 1 . It did not
> bother me that much to fix the bug though.
>
> When Jovie will not work I am considering  write a replacement, maybe
> in Python or JS so anyone can read the code, edit and try fixing or
> extending it the current solution where you would use QtSpeech that
> wraps speechdispatcher that wraps festival or espeak is cery
> convolutede, QtSpeech was bugged when I tested it and I am not that
> good at programming to build Qt from source and try to fix it I also
> prefer to use LTS distributions
>
>
> On 9/18/19 2:20 AM, Gustav Degreef wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Yes, I am also still using Jovie.  I use it only from the tray
>> icon.  I
>> select the text, copy from context menu and then click on the tray icon
>> and select to speak clipboard contents. The only other functionality I
>> can use is to stop the speaking at some point.  I have tried to pause
>> and resume from the tray icon (which is the main functionality that I
>> would like) but it never works properly.  I have tried to configure
>> jovie to use a different voice than e-speak but i have read and read and
>> never succeeded.  E-speak is fine for me, but it drives my wife crazy,
>> and my friends hat the voice, no matte how i change the various
>> settings.  I can continue to use Jovie (without Qtspeech) as long as it
>> keeps working.  But since it is deprecated, I am trying to be prepared
>> when it no longer works.  That is the only reason I am trying to move
>> from Jovie.  Thanks a lot for your input.  I would like to try your
>> modifications., Gustav.
>>
>> On 9/17/19 9:58 AM, Simion wrote:
>>> Hi, I am still using Jovie, it is still present in Kubuntu 18.04
>>> repositories.
>>> When Jovie will be removed from the repos I think I may try to write
>>> some scripts and some GUi if needed to replace it.
>>>
>>> In my humble opinion we Linux users we need some cross desktop basic
>>> application, I am not sure about the desktop integration part but from
>>> what I seen when testing QtSpeech it  makes more sense for me to
>>> avoid the extra Qt abstraction or make multiple backends.
>>>
>>> out of curiosity what Jovie features you use?
>>> I use the following
>>> - the dbus /command line interface to call Jovie from scripts
>>> - the Global shortcuts
>>> - the context menu in the tray icon to change languages(that I
>>> contributed)
>>
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