The KTTS Handbook
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The KTTS Handbook

Gary R. Cramblitt

Revision 1.05.00 (2005-07-31)

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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
Configuring Synthesis Plugins (Talkers)
Starting KTTSD and Setting General Options
Managing Text Jobs
Audio Settings
Text Interruption Settings
Speaking Text from Web Pages
Speaking Text from Kate Text Editor
Speaking Notifications (KNotify)
SSML
Filters (Advanced)
Types of KTTS Messages
Types of Filters
Configuring Filters
Configuring String Replacer Filters
Configuring XML Transformer Filters
Configuring Talker Chooser Filters
Configuring Sentence Boundary Detector Filters
Selecting Talkers (Advanced)
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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