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