Bug 492568

Summary:	APT flatpak malfunctioning "speak text" accessibility function
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	jcb-webb
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.05.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot of Okular configuration Accessibility module. If you click "mock" to look for altenratives in the drop down, none are present.

Description jcb-webb 2024-09-03 00:04:04 UTC

Created attachment 173251 [details]
Screenshot of Okular configuration Accessibility module. If you click "mock" to look for altenratives in the drop down, none are present.

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SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a PDF in Okular that was installed using apt-get or the Ubuntu GUI software installer. 
2. Locate Okular menu tools to read a page or full document. 
3. Click either "read page" or "read document"

OBSERVED RESULT
1. No audio. Check sound settings, sound is assigned to speakers. Try other tool. No audio. 
2. Open Okular settings, Accessibility section.
3. Note that "mock" is the only option for speech engine, despite "speechd" already being installed and running. 

EXPECTED RESULT
1. Okular speaks the text (full document or page only per command selected)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 20.04 
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please be kind to a disabled grad student who may not have correctly followed all expected protocols for this bug report. I have a lot of PDFs to grok and it would really help if Okular's speak text tool functioned.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2024-09-10 11:04:01 UTC

Unfortunately we do not really have much control over what ubuntu ships.

I understand possibly you need to install some other package that provides the speak functionality, but I have no idea.

I have two suggestions for you.

1) try https://discuss.kde.org/ to see if someone with Ubuntu expertise can help you figure out which extra packages you need to install

2) try installing okular from flathub https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.okular If speak functionality does not work there, please file a bug .... and i just realized there's also a bug in https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.okular/issues/73

I apologize for all of this being very broken :/