Female Voice For "Text To Speech" Speak Time

[MinteeBoon2]

Greetings,

I have enabled the "Speak time" feature in Digital Clock Settings. I have also configured Jovie to use a female voice under the "Talkers" tab. Now perhaps the Digial Clock isn't using Jovie to speak the time, I don't know. All I do know is that I get a mail voice announcing the time every hour.

How do I fix this problem? Thanks!

[james147]

Do you get a female voice when you try to speak the clipboard contents (from the context menu of the jovie system tray icon)

[vinnywright]

well it is supposed to use jovie ,,,,I just enabled it and it complained about not finding jovie or kttsd

VINNY

[MinteeBoon2]

Do you get a female voice when you try to speak the clipboard contents (from the context menu of the jovie system tray icon)

No I don't. I copied what you wrote above into the clipboard, but no matter which option I choose: Male 1,2,3 Female 1,2,3 or the children's voices don't work. I still get the same male voice, always. Do I need any packages that aren't installed by default? I'll check Muon Package Manager...

Edit: I don't see any packages that I need to install, but maybe I don't know what to look for?

[vinnywright]

No I don't. I copied what you wrote above into the clipboard, but no matter which option I choose: Male 1,2,3 Female 1,2,3 or the children's voices don't work. I still get the same male voice, always. Do I need any packages that aren't installed by default? I'll check Muon Package Manager...

Edit: I don't see any packages that I need to install, but maybe I don't know what to look for?

ok so curiosity got the best of me
I installed jovie (and all it wanted to pull in with it) and the female voice dose work @hear .

start jovie from kickoff and right click the system tray icon , click configure jovie , click the jobs tab , select the voice type you like and make sure you click the apply button then (after you click apply) it will use the voice you selected

VINNY

[MinteeBoon2]

ok so curiosity got the best of me
I installed jovie (and all it wanted to pull in with it) and the female voice dose work @hear .

start jovie from kickoff and right click the system tray icon , click configure jovie , click the jobs tab , select the voice type you like and make sure you click the apply button then (after you click apply) it will use the voice you selected

VINNY

Still not working for me. What all did you "pull in with it?"

Anyway, it's not a huge issue. I can live with the male voice.

[assettt]

Still not working for me. What all did you "pull in with it?"

Anyway, it's not a huge issue. I can live with the male voice.

Couldn't live with the curiosity as well and decided to try out jovie. BTW didn't realise you can have time spoken out aloud. Anyway I found out to change the voice I needed to select the voice type and then type it in the box before I get the ok button available. Works well.
PS. Is it possible to record any voice and get it added to the jovie database?

[james147]

PS. Is it possible to record any voice and get it added to the jovie database?

Voices are not recorded, they are synthesized other wise you would have terabytes of recordings needed to say everything that can be synthesized.

There are many many different synthesizers available (each with many different voices), however most of the good ones cost allot to buy.

I prefer festival to espeak (both are opensource), but it is harder to configure festival and get it working. But it still does not match professional ones for voice quality. These days it is possible to get completely natural sounding voices, but they are normally quite expensive. Jovie should work for any synthesizer that speech-dispatcher supports.