How to configure Qtspeech

[Jeremy Whiting]

Hi Gustav,

I see, no worries. In okular/qtspeech news the other day I played with
okular's speak current page/document a bit on linux here and found a couple
of issues I'm considering how to fix:

1) QtSpeech on linux loads the speech plugin randomly unless a specific
plugin is specified. Okular's use of QtSpeech doesn't specify a plugin
which is probably best, but because of this if you have both the
speech-dispatcher and the flite qtspeech plugin installed it randomly uses
one or the other to speak. Here I don't have flite installed, but do have a
working speech-dispatcher, so half of the time I wouldn't get any speech at
all (when it chose the flite plugin). I'm thinking to fix this either
okular needs a setting to let the user choose which speech plugin to use,
or QtSpeech itself needs a configuration to let the user say which plugin
they prefer.
2) There's not a way to pause/resume. For this I added a patch to okular
that is up for review here: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24102 which seems
to work nicely so far (when QtSpeech randomly chooses the right plugin
anyway) to let me pause/resume what it's reading.

As for general speak clipboard contents I think a good place to add this
feature would be in klipper itself that comes with plasma-desktop. I'll get
that in place next I think. My idea is to have a context menu item in
Klipper's system tray icon to speak clipboard contents and also an
associated action that could be bound to a keyboard shortcut so ctrl-c to
copy, then whatever you assign to speak clipboard contents to speak what
was copied, similar to how it's done with Jovie.

As for hearing multiple voices overlapping each other, I don't see how that
could be happening, but in order to try to recreate it here could you send
me your speech-dispatcher configuration files? Basically all files under
~/.config/speech-dispatcher/

thanks,
Jeremy

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:34 PM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking back over it, I realize the question does not make sense.  I am
> just struggling to figure out how to use Qtspeech in a simple way.
> Thanks, Gustav.
>
> On 9/18/19 10:43 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > Hi Gustav,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:52 PM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> ....
> >
> >      Maybe this is a
> >     dumb question, but would it work with Qtspeech?Â
> >
> >
> > Would what work with QtSpeech? I'm not sure what you're asking here.
> > ktts was renamed to jovie, neither of them uses QtSpeech.
> > Â
> >
> >
> >     On 9/18/19 10:27 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> >     > ktts is what jovie came from. It's much much older and does the
> same
> >     > thing (ktts just got renamed to jovie when I refactored ktts to use
> >     > speech-dispatcher instead of a bunch of it's own synthesizer
> >     modules).
> >
>
>
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