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Revision as of 21:21, 13 December 2023
The KDE Text-To-Speech System, Jovie |
Features
- Converts text into audio
- Highly Configurable
- Substitute misspoken words
- Choose speech synthesizers
- Configure Audio Output
- Manage Jobs
- Runs in the System Tray
- Integrates with most KDE applications
- Speak text from clipboard
- Speak all or sections of text file in Kate
- Speak all or sections of HTML page in Konqueror
- Can be used for notifications (KNotify)
Description
The KDE Text-To-Speech System Jovie is an application that can run in the background to provide speech output of text throughout the desktop. It integrates with many applications and is simple to use.
Setup
Once installed you can start Jovie by going to your applications menu and under Alt+F2 and run
open . Or just start KRunnerjovie
. Jovie is not initially setup and you will need to do this before using its speaking abilities.
The first step is to make sure you have a compatible speech engine installed. The following synthesizers are compatible with Jovie: Festival, Festival Lite (flite), Hadifix, Epos, and FreeTTS. Any engine that can be run from commandline can also be used with Jovie.
Now you can continue on and create a Talker. Select the tab
from the and click .Select which language and synthesizer to use. You will need to have a voice installed to use Festival, you can configure this afterwards by selecting the
button. Jovie should now be setup and you can test it by selecting and then .Configuration
To configure the speaker's voice, volume, speed, and pitch go to the
tab and click on the speaker. A window such as the one in the above screenshot will popup and allow you to configure it. To change the voice you will need to have other voices installed.Using Jovie
System Tray
If enabled in the configuration, Jovie will be availabe to you in the System Tray. Right-clicking it will reveal the menu which is straight forward and allows for control of the speech output.
Notice the
in the menu, if the application isn't integrated with Jovie (Read more about the applications with Jovie built-in in the next section) you can copy the text you want spoken, and click to hear it read.Integration with other Desktop Applications
Konqueror
Jovie allows you to speak the text on a web page. In the menu go to
. However you may not want to do this because it will also read the HTML headers on the page. Instead highlight the text you want spoken and then select .Also note this feature is built into Okular as well. In the
menu you will be give two choices or .Notifications
Jovie works with any application that uses notifications. To set this up start an application such as Konversation that uses notifications. In the menu go to
As you can see you can have various notifications for different events, such as when someone triggers a highlight. By selecting it to speak for this event it will notify you through audio output each time this event happens. Of course you can also have more than one notification.
Troubleshooting
If Jovie is silent despite having added a voice, try running the speech-dispatcher configuration tool on the command line.
spd-conf
For more information check out the Jovie Handbook included with Jovie or the Jovie handbook.