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KTTS -- KDE Text-to-Speech -- is a subsystem within the KDE desktop
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for conversion of text to audible speech. KTTS is currently under
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development and aims to become the standard subsystem for all KDE
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applications to provide speech output. Currently, KTTS consists of
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the following components:
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KTTSD
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The KDE Text-to-Speech Deamon, a non-gui application that runs in
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the background, providing TTS support to KDE applications. Applications
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initiate TTS by making DCOP calls to kttsd.
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KTTSMGR
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An application for configuring the KTTS System and for managing in-progress
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speech jobs. kttsmgr provides an icon in the system tray for performing
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these functions as needed.
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kttsjobmgr
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A KPart for managing in-progress speech jobs.
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kcmkttsd
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A KControl module for configuring the KTTS System. kcmkttsd runs in the
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KDE Control Center or start it with the command "kcmshell kcmkttsd".
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ktexteditor_kttsd
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A plugin for the KDE Advanced Text Editor that permits you to speak an entire
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text file or any portion of a file.
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khmtl-plugin
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A plugin for Konqueror that permits you to speak all or any portion of an
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HTML web page. (Note: this component is in kdebase/konqueror/kttsplugin)
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Original Author: José Pablo Ezequiel "Pupeno" Fernández <pupeno@kde.org>
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Current Maintainer: Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt@comcast.net>
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Contributors:
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Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt@kde.org>
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Gunnar Schmi Dt <gunnar@schmi-dt.de>
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Paul Giannaros <ceruleanblaze@gmail.com>
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Jorge Luis Arzola <arzolacub@hotmail.com>
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David Powell <achiestdragon@gmail.com>
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User features:
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* Speak contents of a text file.
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* Speak KDE notification events (KNotify).
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* Speak all or part of the text of a web page in Konqueror.
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* Speak all or part of the text in Kate text editor, including
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instances where Kate is embedded in another KDE application.
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* Long text is parsed into sentences. User may backup by sentence
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or paragraph, replay, pause, and stop playing.
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* Filter plugins for converting chat emoticons to speakable words,
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fix mispronunciations, and convert xhtml to SSML.
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* Audio output via aRts, ALSA, GStreamer (version 0.8.7 or later),
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or aKode.
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Programmer features:
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* Priority system for screen reader outputs, warnings and messages,
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while still playing regular texts.
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* Plugin-based architecture for support of a wide variety of speech
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synthesis engines and drivers.
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* Permit generation of speech from the command line (or via shell scripts)
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using the KDE DCOP utilities.
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* Provide a lightweight and easily usable interface for applications
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to generate speech output.
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* Applications need not be concerned about contention over the speech device.
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* FUTURE: Provide support for speech markup languages, such as VoiceXML, Sable,
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Java Speech Markup Language (JSML), and Speech Markup Meta-language (SMML).
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* FUTURE: Provide limited support for embedded speech markers.
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* Asynchronous to prevent system blocking.
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Requirements
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KDE 3.2 or greater and a speech synthesis engine, such as Festival. Festival
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can be obtained from http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/. Festival
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is distributed with most Linux distros. Check your distro CDs. Also works
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with Hadifix, Epos, Festival Lite (flite), FreeTTS, or any command that can
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speak text.
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Optional Components
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* The sox utility is needed for adjusting overall speech rate.
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* The xsltproc utility is needed for SSML support.
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* GStreamer 0.8.7 or greater.
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See the KTTS Handbook
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(http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/handbook/index.html)
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for complete instructions on installing, compiling, configuring, and using
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KTTS.
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Audio Plugins
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-------------
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KTTS can be built with the following audio plugins. The "Default Configure
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"Option" column shows the default option for the configure command.
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The "Alternate" column gives the opposite configure option:
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System Plugin Default Configure Option Alternate
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aRts artsplayer --with-arts --without-arts
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ALSA alsaplayer --with-alsa=check --with-alsa=no
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GStreamer gstplayer --with-gstreamer=no --with-gstreamer=check
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aKode akodeplayer --with-akode=no --with-akode=check
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You *must* have at least one of these plugins for KTTS to work.
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The aKode and GStreamer players are not built by default because they have issues
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with instant stopping and starting.
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Packager Notes
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The following speech synthesizer plugins are all built by default.
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Some of them are runtime only dependent upon non-free software.
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(Non-free according to Debian Policy). The "Configure Option to
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not build" column shows the configure command to not build the plugin:
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Synth License Configure Option to not build
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Festival free --disable-kttsd-festivalint
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Festival Lite free --disable-kttsd-flite
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Epos free --disable-kttsd-epos
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Command free --disable-kttsd-command
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Hadifix non-free --disable-kttsd-hadifix
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FreeTTS non-free --disable-kttsd-freetts
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IMPORTANT NOTE TO BINARY PACKAGERS:
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Please do not distribute binary packages of kdeaccessibility with the
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gstreamer plugin, as this creates unwanted dependencies. Instead,
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distribute the gstreamer plugin in a separate package, e.g.
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kde-accessibility-extras. The separate package should require
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gstreamer >= 0.8.7. Thank you.
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Support
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The KTTS website is
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http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd
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In addition to the KDE Bugzilla database (bugs.kde.org), discussions for KTTSD
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currently take place in the kde-accessibility mailing list. Subscribe at
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https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility. Developers
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also hang out in IRC (irc.kde.org channel #kde-accessibility).
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Directories
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libktts Library for applications desiring to speak text. This must be built first.
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libkttsd Library for KTTSD. Defines the interface for plugins for KTTSD. Must be built second.
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players Audio plugins for KTTSD.
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artsplayer aRts audio plugin for KTTSD.
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gstplayer GStreamer audio plugin for KTTSD.
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alsaplayer ALSA audio plugin for KTTSD.
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akodeplayer aKode audio plugin for KTTSD.
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plugins Plugins for KTTSD. You must have at least one plugin to use KTTSD.
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festivalint Plugin for Festival using Festival Interactive mode (festival --interactive).
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flite Plugin for Festival Lite.
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hadifix Plugin for Hadifix.
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freetts Plugin for FreeTTS.
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epos Plugin for Epos.
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command Generic command plugin.
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kttsd KTTSD itself. Non-interactive deamon.
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icons Icon for kttsmgr and KTTSD.
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kttsjobmgr A KPart used by kcmkttsmgr for managing text jobs in KTTSD.
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kcmkttsmgr A KControl module for managing KTTSD. Run using "kcmshell kcmkttsd".
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kttsmgr Application for managing KTTSD. Wrapper for kcmkttsmgr plus a system tray icon.
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app-plugins Plugins for other applications to speak text.
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kate Embedded Kate plugin.
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compat Copy of kdelibs/interfaces/kspeech. Used when compiling for KDE less than 3.4.
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debian Debian packaging files. (possibly way out of date)
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