Jovie. Does it actually work?

[Jonesy]

KDE4 fully updated.

I am trying to get the Jovie text to speech application to work on a friends machine so she can use the text to speech option in Okular.

We have installed every TTS app in the repo such as espeak and festival but Jovie is still quite lifeless. No synthesis engines are listed in the config dialog and so no voices can be added. Running a text command in espeak or festival from a terminal yields normal output so they are working. Jovie seems to be busted. What is missing and how can she make it work?.

 

[nixus]

I know this is an old thread, but trying to get jovie to work with okular is still not possible. Does anyone actually uses jovie successfully?

I get following output:

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[leerreich@leerreichHP ~]$ jovie
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
jovie(5072)/kttsd (daemon): could not get a connection to speech-dispatcher
as recommended in the manual I installed speed-dispatcher.
It is also mentioned to check whether or not jovie works properly a shell scrip "spd-conf' can be used. But I wouldn't know how to use it.

any ideas?
thanks,
nixus

[sonic20]

I added Kmouth and speech-dispatcher, and I was able to make it work; however, the voices sound so metallic and computer generated, despite adjustments, that it is not pleasant at all.

I am looking for something else.

[Phil]

I did a search for speech in synaptic and see festival and espeak, not tried them.

I could not see orca which is what is in Knoppix/Adriane which you may know as a live distro.

There was an article on distrowatch maybe a year ago about computers for the blind, I posted it on this site so maybe do a search.

PS

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120521

Also Adriane/Knoppix and Vinux are specialised for this.