Jovie
The Jovie text-to-speech system is a plugin based service that
allows any KDE
(or non-KDE) application to speak using the D-Bus interface. This
software aims to become the standard subsystem for all KDE applications
to provide speech output.
Jovie uses the speech-dispatcher daemon for the actual speech
job; kmouth is a useful front-end for it.
This package is part of the KDE accessibility module.
Jovie 0.6
|
|
Price
Free to download
Size
Part of KDE accessibility module
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Jeremy Whiting, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández, and
contributors
Website
techbase.kde.org
System Requirements
KDE 4.4 or higher
kmouth
speech-dispatcher 0.6.7 or higher
espeak, festival, or flite
Support
Sites:
Handbook,
Forums, Mailing
List
Selected
Reviews:
|
Features include:
- User Features:
- Speak any text from the KDE clipboard
- Speak any plain text file
- Speak all or any portion of a text file from Kate,
including instances where Kate isembedded in another KDE application
- Speak all or any portion of an HTML page from Konqueror
- Use as the speech backend for KMouth and KSayIt
- Speak KDE notifications (KNotify)
- User-configurable filters for substituting misspoken
words, choosing
speech synthesizers, and transforming XHMTL/XML documents
- Programmer Features:
- Priority system for screen reader outputs, warnings and
messages, while
still playing regular texts
- Permit generation of speech from the command line (or via
shell
scripts) using the qdbus utility
- Provide a lightweight and easily usableinterface for
applications to generate speech output
- Applications need not be concerned about contention over
the speech device
- Asynchronous to prevent system blocking
Return
to Speech Tools Home Page
Last Updated Monday, March 25 2013 @ 04:17 PM EST
| 
