KMouth is an augmentative and alternative communication application that enables people who cannot speak to have their computer speak for them.
Users enter text which KMouth passes to a speech synthesizer. Frequently used sentences can be stored in user-defined phrasebooks.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Converts entered text into spoken speech.
- Support for user-defined phrasebooks containing frequently used sentences.
- Phrasebook entries can be spoken immediately or inserted into the text field.
- Maintains a history of spoken sentences.
- Word completion reduces the amount of typing required.
- Supports multiple word-completion dictionaries.
- Can build completion dictionaries from files, folders or KDE documentation.
- Learns newly typed words and adds them to completion dictionaries.
- Uses the system speech service or a separately configured speech synthesizer.
- Supports selection of speech engines and voices.
Website: apps.kde.org/kmouth
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Developer: KDE
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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