KDE Text-to-Speech Manager

[devolic]

KTTSMgr doesn't do anything when you go Test it. It says it takes several seconds and stops there.
I checked and aRts, ALSA, GStreamer, and aKode library is installed.

[Rog131]

Re: KDE Text-to-Speech Manager

kttsd a Text-to-Speech system for KDE

The KDE Text-to-Speech system is a plugin based service that allows any KDE
(or non-KDE) application to speak using the DCOP interface.

ksayit and kmouth are useful front-ends for this capability, while one of
festival, flite, and epos are essential back-ends.

This package is part of KDE, as a component of the KDE accessibility module.
See the 'kde' and 'kdeaccessibility' packages for more information.

Homepage: http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd

What backend do you have ?


Testing festival (in the konsole):

$ festival
festival> (SayText "This is a short introduction ...")
festival> (quit)
$

Date and time:

$ echo "Time is `date +%H%M`" | festival --tts