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 20022003 Gunnar Schmi Dt &FDLNotice; - 2013-06-23 - 1.1.1 (&kde; 4.11) + 2018-01-04 + 1.2.0 (Applications 17.12) &kmouth; is an application that enables persons that cannot speak to let their computers speak. KDE kdeaccesibility KMouth text-to-speech conversion mutual persons Introduction &kmouth; is a program that enables persons that cannot speak to let their computers speak. It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken. Note that &kmouth; does not include any speech synthesizers. Instead it requires a speech synthesizer installed in the system. Using &kmouth; The First Time Setup During the first use of &kmouth;, a wizard is displayed in which you can configure it. Text-to-Speech Configuration Text-to-Speech Configuration With the first page of the wizard you specify the command that shall be used for the text-to-speech conversion. For more details look into the description of the configuration dialog. Initial Phrase Book Initial Phrase Book With the second page you select which standard phrase books you need. From the phrase books you can select often used phrases so that you do not need to type them in. Of course &kmouth; also has an edit dialog for the case that you later want to edit your phrase books. Word Completion Word Completion With the third page you define the dictionary for a word completion. &kmouth; will parse the &kde; documentation of the chosen language in order to detect the regularity of individual words. Optionally you can compare the word list to an OpenOffice.org dictionary in order to only add correctly spelled words to the word completion. The Main Window The main window of &kmouth; is fairly simple. It consists basically of an edit field into which you type your sentences (the lower white field in the screen shot) and a history of spoken sentences (the upper white field in the screen shot). The main window of &kmouth; The main window of &kmouth; Assuming that you have correctly configured &kmouth; you can use the edit field for entering sentences you want to hear. Once a sentence got spoken it will be appended to the history. From the history you can select sentences to be re-spoken. From the phrase books (located in the line below the tool bar) you can select often used phrases. The Configuration Dialog By using the menu entry SettingsConfigure &kmouth;... you open the configuration dialog of &kmouth;. This dialog consists of the pages General Options with the two tabs Preferences and Text-to-Speech, the page Word Completion and the page Jovie Speech Service. The Preferences tab The Preferences tab Screen shot The Preferences tab contains options that alter the behavior of &kmouth; in certain situations. - With the first combo box, Selection of phrases in the phrase book:, + With the first combo box Selection of phrases in the phrase book you specify which action is triggered by typing the shortcut of a phrase or by selecting a phrase in the Phrase Book menu or in the phrase book bar. By selecting Speak Immediately the selected phrase gets immediately spoken and is entered into the history. If you select Insert Into Edit Field the selected phrase is just inserted into the edit field. With the second combo box, Closing the phrase book - edit window:, you specify whether the phrase book + edit window, you specify whether the phrase book gets saved if you just close the phrase book edit window. By selecting Save Phrase Book the phrase book gets saved. If you select Discard changes the changes are discarded and the phrase book is not saved. If you select Ask Whether to Save &kmouth; will ask you whether it shall save the phrase book. The Text-to-Speech tab The Text-to-Speech tab Screen shot + + By selecting Use default speech system you tell &kmouth; + first to try to use the system speech service prior to calling the speech + synthesizer directly. If this succeeds the other configuration entries on + this tab are ignored. The system speech service is a &Qt; library which + wraps speech-dispatcher on &Linux;, and native speech systems on other platforms. + On a Debian based system you need the packages speech-dispatcher, libqt5texttospeech5 + and one of the speech-dispatcher modules, usually espeak. + Use the commandline tool spd-conf (Debian package python3-speechd) + to adjust settings like rate, pitch, volume, voice type and language &etc; for the default speech system. + Additionally spd-conf will let you choose between all installed + speech-dispatcher modules, &ie; espeak, + festival, flite, + mbrola &etc; + + Into the edit field of the Text-to-Speech tab you enter the command for calling the speech synthesizer. With the combo box below the edit field you specify the character encoding that is used for passing the text to the speech synthesizer. &kmouth; knows two ways of passing the text: If the command expects the text as standard input you select the check box. The other way is to pass the text as a parameter: Before calling the command &kmouth; replaces certain placeholders with actual content: PlaceholderReplaced with %t The actual text that should be spoken %f The name of a temporary file that contains the text that should be spoken %l The language code associated with the current word completion dictionary %%A percent sign Of course the command for speaking texts is dependent on which speech synthesizer you use. Please look into the documentation of your speech - synthesizer for the command for speaking texts. You can find examples - for the command in the appendix. - - - By selecting Use Jovie speech service if possible you tell &kmouth; - first to try to send the text to the Jovie speech service. If this succeeds the - other configuration entries on this tab are ignored. The Jovie speech - service is a &kde; daemon which gives &kde; applications a standardized - interface for speech synthesis and is currently developed in Git. It - is safe to select this option even if Jovie is not installed. + synthesizer for the command for speaking texts. The Word Completion page The Word Completion page Screen shot The Word Completion page contains a list of dictionaries used for the word completion. (&kmouth; will display a combo box next to the edit field in the main window if this list contains more than one dictionary. You can use this combo box in order to select the dictionary that actually gets used for the word completion.) With the buttons on the right side of the page you can add and delete dictionaries, change the order of the dictionaries or export dictionaries to a file. With the edit field and the combo box below the list you can change the name and the language associated with the dictionary. When you add a new dictionary you may choose between several sources: Create a new dictionary from the &kde; documentation If you use this source &kmouth; will ask you for the intended language and afterwards parse the &kde; documentation. The frequentness of the individual words is detect by simply counting the occurrences of each word. Optionally you can compare the word list to an OpenOffice.org dictionary in order to only add correctly spelled words to the new dictionary. Create a new dictionary from a file If you use this source &kmouth; will ask you for the intended file. You may either select an &XML; file, a standard text file or a file containing a word completion dictionary created by either &kmouth; or GOK (the GNOME On-screen Keyboard). If you select a standard text file or an &XML; file the frequentness of the individual words is detected by simply counting the occurrences of each word. Optionally you can compare the word list to an OpenOffice.org dictionary in order to only add correctly spelled words to the new dictionary. Create a new dictionary from a folder If you use this source &kmouth; will ask you for the intended folder. &kmouth; will open all files in that folder and its subfolders. Each file is either loaded as a completion dictionary, as an &XML; file or as a standard text file. In the latter two cases the occurrences of each individual word in the file is counted. Optionally you can compare the word list to an OpenOffice.org dictionary in order to only add correctly spelled words to the new dictionary. Merge dictionaries You can use this option in order to merge the available dictionaries. &kmouth; will ask you which dictionaries should be merged and how the individual dictionaries should be weighted. Create an empty word list You can use this option in order to create a blank dictionary without any entries. As &kmouth; automatically adds newly typed words to the dictionaries it will learn your vocabulary with the time. - - The Jovie Speech Service page - The configuration of the &kde; Speech Service is described in detail in the - Jovie Handbook. - The Phrase Book Edit Window By using the menu entry Phrase BooksEdit... you open the phrase book edit window. The phrase book edit window Screenshot The main area of the phrase book edit window is divided into two parts. Within the upper part the phrase books are displayed in some tree structure. Within the lower part you may modify a selected item. If you have selected a phrase you can modify the contents of the phrase as well as its shortcut. If you have selected a phrase book you can only change its name. Actions like adding new phrases and phrase books and deleting selected phrases and phrase books can be done by selecting them in either the menu bar, the toolbar or a pop up menu. You can change the order of the phrase books and phrases by dragging them to their new places or by using the arrow keys while the &Alt; key is pressed. Command Reference Commands Within The Main Window The File Menu &Ctrl;O File Open as History... Opens a text file into as history of spoken sentences. &Ctrl;S File Save History As... Saves the history into a text file. &Ctrl;P File Print History... Prints the history. &Ctrl;Q File Quit Quits &kmouth; The Edit Menu &Ctrl;X Edit Cut Cuts the selected section and puts it to the clipboard. If there is some text selected in the edit field it is placed in the clipboard. Otherwise the selected sentences in the history (if any) are placed in the clipboard. &Ctrl;C Edit Copy Copies the selected section to the clipboard. If there is some text selected in the edit field it is copied to the clipboard. Otherwise the selected sentences in the history (if any) are copied to the clipboard. &Ctrl;V Edit Paste Pastes the clipboard contents at the current cursor position into the edit field. Edit Speak Speaks the currently active sentence(s). If there is some text in the edit field it is spoken. Otherwise the selected sentences in the history (if any) are spoken. The Phrase Books Menu Phrase Books Edit... Opens the phrase book edit window. &kmouth; has the common &kde; Settings and Help menu items, for more information read the sections about the Settings Menu and Help Menu of the &kde; Fundamentals. - - - The pop up menu of history entries - - - - Speak - - - The selected sentences are spoken. - - - - - Delete - - - The selected sentences are removed from the history. - - - - - Cut - - - The selected sentences are deleted and placed on the clipboard. - - - - - Copy - - - The selected sentences are copied to the clipboard. - - - - - Select All Entries - - - All history entries are selected. - - - - - Deselect All Entries - - - All history entries are deselected. - - - - - &Ctrl;O - Open as History... - - - Opens a text file into as history of spoken sentences. - - - - -&Ctrl;S - Save History As... - - - Saves the history into a text file. - - - - Commands within the phrase book edit window The File Menu File New Phrase Adds a new phrase. File New Phrase Book Adds a new phrase book. &Ctrl;S File Save Saves the phrase book. File Import... Imports a file and adds its contents to the phrase book File Import Standard Phrase Book Imports a standard phrase book and adds its contents to the phrase book File Export... Exports the currently selected phrase(s) or phrase book(s) to a file - - - - &Ctrl;P - - File - Print... - - Prints the currently selected phrase(s) or phrase book(s) - &Ctrl;W File Close Closes the window The Edit Menu &Ctrl;X Edit Cut Cuts the selected items and puts it to the clipboard. &Ctrl;C Edit Copy Copies the selected items to the clipboard. &Ctrl;V Edit Paste Pastes the clipboard contents into the phrase book. Edit Delete Deletes the selected items. The Help Menu The items in this menu are the same as in the main window. The Pop up Menu New Phrase Adds a new phrase. New Phrase Book Adds a new phrase book. Import... Imports a file and adds its contents to the phrase book Import Standard Phrase Book Imports a standard phrase book and adds its contents to the phrase book Export... Exports the currently selected phrase(s) or phrase book(s) to a file &Ctrl;X Cut Cuts the selected items and puts it to the clipboard. &Ctrl;C Copy Copies the selected items to the clipboard. &Ctrl;V Paste Pastes the clipboard contents at this position into the phrase book. Delete Deletes the selected items. - - Questions and Answers - - &reporting.bugs; - &updating.documentation; - - - - - I do not hear anything. - - - - Most likely you did not configure correctly (or at all) the - text-to-speech command. Use - - SettingsConfigure &kmouth;... - , open the page General Options - and enter the command for speaking texts on the tab Text-to-Speech. - (See section about the configuration - dialog for the speech synthesizer for more details.) - - - - - - Credits and License - &kappname; + &kmouth; Program copyright 2002-2004 Gunnar Schmi Dt gunnar@schmi-dt.de Documentation copyright 2002-2004 Gunnar Schmi Dt gunnar@schmi-dt.de &underFDL; &underGPL; + diff --git a/doc/man-kmouth.1.docbook b/doc/man-kmouth.1.docbook index 7c28447..3e02c81 100644 --- a/doc/man-kmouth.1.docbook +++ b/doc/man-kmouth.1.docbook @@ -1,78 +1,77 @@ ]> &kde; User's Manual &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail; -2010-09-15 -K Desktop Environment +2018-01-03 +Applications 17.12 +KDE Applications kmouth 1 kmouth A type-and-say front end for speech synthesizers kmouth filename -&kde; Generic Options -&Qt; Generic Options Description &kmouth; is an application that enables persons that cannot speak to -let their computers speak.It includes a history of spoken sentences from +let their computers speak. It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken. Note that &kmouth; does not include speech synthesizer. Instead it requires a speech synthesizer installed in the system. Options The history file to open. See Also espeak(1), festival(1), mbrola(1), freetts(1) More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kmouth (either enter this &URL; into &konqueror;, or run khelpcenter help:/kmouth). There is also further information available at the &kde; Accessibility project web site. Authors &kmouth; was written by GunnarSchmi Dt kmouth@schmi-dt.de.