Text Interruption Settings
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Text Interruption Settings

When you click the Interruption tab in kttsmgr, the Interruption screen appears.


The KDE Text-to-Speech Manager (Interruption tab)

This screen permits you to specify special actions to be taken whenever a text job is interrupted by another, higher priority, message. There are four kinds of speech jobs that KTTS handles:

Screen Reader Output has the highest priority. It is reserved for use by Screen Reader applications. Screen Reader Output preempts all other messages, causing those jobs to pause. Once the Screen Reader Output has been spoken, the preempted jobs will automatically resume.

Warnings are the next highest priority. It is reserved for high-priority messages, such as "CPU is over-heating." A Warning will preempt Messages and regular text, causing those jobs to pause. Once the Warning has been spoken, the preempted jobs will automatically resume.

Messages are the next highest priority. A Message will preempt regular text jobs. KMouth is an example of an application that uses Messages. For example, while reading out long text from a web page, KMouth can be used to greet someone who walks into the room.

All four kinds of jobs are queues, except for Screen Reader Output. If a Screen Reader Output is sent from an application while KTTS is speaking another Screen Reader Output, the speaking message is stopped and discarded.

When a text job is interrupted by a Message, Warning, or Screen Reader Output, KTTS will add the audio outputs on this screen to the stream.

1

This message is spoken whenever a regular text job is interrupted.

2

This audio file is sounded whenever a regular text job is interrupted. If both a Pre-sound and a Pre-message are specified, the Pre-sound is sounded before the Pre-message.

3

This message is spoken whenever an interrupted text job resumes.

4

This audio file is sounded whenever an interrupted text job resumes. It is sounded last.

Note

The settings on this screen apply only to regular text jobs. Messages, Warnings, and Screen Reader Outputs have no special actions when they are preempted by a higher-priority message.

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