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