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Chapter 5. Questions and Answers

This document may have been updated since your installation. You can find the latest version at http://docs.kde.org/current/kdeaccessibility/.

5.1. I need to start over. How do I get KTTS completely terminated?
5.2. How can I see debugging output from kttsd?
5.3. I have an additional Festival voice I downloaded from the Internet. I installed it, and I can use it in Festival, but it does not show up in kttsmgr.
5.4. None of the supported speech synthesizers support the language I need. Where can I get a synth for my language?
5.1.

I need to start over. How do I get KTTS completely terminated?

Enter the following commands in a Konsole:

killall kttsd
killall kttsmgr

5.2.

How can I see debugging output from kttsd?

Open two Konsole windows. First start kttsd in one window, then start kttsmgr in the second.

5.3.

I have an additional Festival voice I downloaded from the Internet. I installed it, and I can use it in Festival, but it does not show up in kttsmgr.

Edit file $KDEHOME/share/apps/kttsd/festivalint/voices to add the new voice. The other entries can be used as a guide. If you successfully add a voice, please send a patch to the developers along with the URL from which you obtained the voice file.

5.4.

None of the supported speech synthesizers support the language I need. Where can I get a synth for my language?

Google(tm) is your friend. This link might also help. If you find a free synthesis engine that supports your desired language, and want to add support for it to KTTS, please contact the development team. Open source engines are especially welcome. If you know of a commercial synth, perhaps you can pursuade the vendor to donate a free copy to the KTTS development team. In the meantime, you may be able to get the synth working using the Command plugin. See the section called “Using the Command Plugin”.

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