The KTTS Handbook
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The KTTS Handbook

Gary R. Cramblitt

Revision 1.03.00 (2005-02-01)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KTTS - the KDE Text-to-Speech system - is a plugin based service that allows any KDE (or non-KDE) application to speak using the DCOP interface.

KTTS intends to be the implementation for the KDE Text-to-Speech API.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Support
2. Using KTTS
Starting kttsmgr
Selecting Synthesis Plugins (Talkers)
Configuring Synthesis Plugins (Talkers)
Starting KTTSD and Setting General Options
Managing Text Jobs
Audio Settings
Filters
Configuring String Replacer Filters.
Configuring XML Transformer Filters.
Configuring Talker Chooser Filters.
Configuring Sentence Boundary Detector Filters.
Text Interruption Settings
Speaking Text from Web Pages
Speaking Text from Kate Text Editor
Speaking Notifications (KNotify)
SSML
3. Command Reference
4. Developer's Guide to KTTS
The KTTS DCOP Interface
5. Questions and Answers
6. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain KTTS
Requirements
Compilation and Installation
Configuration
Using with Festival (Interactive)
Using with Festival Lite (flite)
Using with Hadifix (MBROLA and txt2pho)
Using with Epos
Using with FreeTTS
Using the Command Plugin
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