How to configure Qtspeech

[Gustav Degreef]

Thanks Jeremy,

Being able to have clipboard contents read out would be excellent.

I have no /home/user/.config/speech-dispatcher folder
Gustav

On 9/21/19 8:54 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     ....
>     >
>     >Â  Â  Â Â Maybe this is a
>     >     dumb question, but would it work with Qtspeech? 
>     >
>     >
>     > 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  Â  Â On 9/18/19 10:27 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>     >Â  Â  Â > ktts is what jovie came from. It's much much older and
>     does the same
>     >Â  Â  Â > thing (ktts just got renamed to jovie when I refactored
>     ktts to use
>     >Â  Â  Â > speech-dispatcher instead of a bunch of it's own
>     synthesizer
>     >Â  Â  Â modules).
>     >
>