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Chapter 1. Introduction

KTTS is a subsysem within KDE for producing Text-to-Speech (TTS). It provides a common API for KDE programmers to give TTS capabilities to their applications. It provides some nice capabilities for end users as well.

User features:

Programmer features:

KTTS actually consists of several programs:

kttsd

the KDE Text-to-Speech Daemon, which is a non-GUI application that provides TTS services to applications via DCOP.

kttsmgr

a GUI application for configuring and controlling kttsd. kttsmgr sits in the system tray.

libkhtmlkttsdplugin

A plugin for the Konqueror web browser that permits you to speak all or a portion of the text on a web page.

ktexteditor_kttsd

A plugin for the Kate text editor that permits you to speak all or a portion of a text file.

Support

In addition to the KDE Bugzilla database ( http://bugs.kde.org/ ), discussions for KTTS currently take place in the kde-accessibility mailing list. Subscribe at https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility. Developers also hang out in IRC (irc.kde.org, channel #kde-accessibility).

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