kttsd for Debian ================ ktts is the KDE Text-to-Speech System. more information may be found on the web page of the project: http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kttsd plugins ============= kttsd comes with 3 kind of plugins: o AudioPlugins o FilterPlugins o SynthPlugins The synthetizer plugins rely on third party software, that you have to install in order to make them fully functional (see kttsd Recommends: field). That software are : o festival for the Festival Plugin. o epos for the epos plugin. o filte for the FLite plugin. They all are packaged in debian. There is a Command Plugin also, that allow you to use any TTS synthetizer that has a command line interface. kttsd contrib plugins ===================== kttsd comes also with free Synthetizer plugins, but depends upon non free software : o FreeTTS plugin. o Hadifix (mbrola/txt2pho) plugin. You can find these plugins in the contrib section, in the package kttsd-contrib-plugins. For additional instructions on downloading and configuring these engines for use in KTTS, please read the Appendix A of the kttsd handbook (either type help:/kttsd in konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kttsd). -- Pierre Habouzit Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:17:20 +0100