Bug 195980

Summary:	Make KTTS use Speech Dispatcher
Product:	[Unmaintained] kttsd	Reporter:	Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Hans-J. Ullrich 2009-06-11 09:28:17 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Dear maintainers,

I am not able to get any messages spoken(!) by kde4.2

I am using speech-dispatcher in kde. Speech-dispatcher itself seem to work fine, as it is running perfectly from the commandline by using spd-say.

Maybe I have still a configuration problem? Are there other ways to use kde4.2 with speech output? In the past I used kde3.5 with kttsd, which worked perfectly, and if I understood it correctly, speech-dispatcher shall be the substitute for kttsd.

Please feel free to ask for more information.

Thank you.

Hans-J. Ullrich

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-06-12 01:22:31 UTC

Just a little comment: kttds is still available on KDE4, I don't know if "SpeechDispatcher" is related to KDE or if it will became the new application.
Regards

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2009-06-12 16:32:18 UTC

KTTS does not yet support Speech-Dispatcher. You will have to configure KTTS to use festival or another supported backend manually for now.

Reassigning, and marking as a wish.

Comment 3 Jeremy Whiting 2009-06-12 17:08:25 UTC

Here's a blog post I just made on the progress, hehe.
http://jpwhiting.blogspot.com/2009/06/kttsd-using-speech-dispatcher.html

Comment 4 Hans-J. Ullrich 2009-06-15 15:21:50 UTC

Dear maintainers,

uninstalling speech-dispatcher again and a whole update of all packages seem to solve this problem. KDE4 is now speaking messages as wished.

So I suggest, to close this bug.

Thank you very much for your help and hints!


Cheers

Hans

Comment 5 Jeremy Whiting 2009-06-15 17:42:57 UTC

closing as bug reporter got it working without speech-dispatcher, 4.4 will still very likely use speech-dispatcher, but it's not a bug =)