When you click the Add button on the Talkers tab and add a Talker, or click the Edit button, the Talker Configuration screen appears. Each speech synthesis plugin has a different Talker Configuration screen. The following is an example for configuring the Festival Interactive plugin. For specifics for each kind of plugin, see the section called “Configuration”.
![]() | Specify the path to the Festival executable program.
If Festival is in your PATH environment variable, just enter
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![]() | Click to scan for available voices. |
![]() | Select a voice. |
![]() | Click to test. You should hear a test sentence spoken. |
![]() | Use these controls to set the volume, talking speed, and pitch (tone) of the synthesized speech. If any of these are disabled (grayed), the chosen voice does not support changing them. |
![]() | Some voices, such as the MultiSyn voices, are so large that they require several seconds to load. Checking this box will cause them to be loaded when KTTSD is started, thereby saving time (at the expense of using more memory) before the first sentence is synthesized. |
Click the button to save the Talker configuration settings.
Be sure to click the button, otherwise your changes will not take effect in the running KTTS system.
Assuming the test worked, you are almost ready to begin using KTTS. Now go back to the General tab and check the Enable Text-to-Speech System (KTTSD) box. This will start the KDE TTS Deamon. See the section called “Starting KTTSD and Setting General Options”. You may now begin using KTTS to speak text. Click the Jobs tab to create and manage text jobs. See the section called “Managing Text Jobs”.