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Dhvani - KDE Integration.
Mar. 16th, 2008 | 09:06 pm
location: Chennai
mood: creative
It is possible integrate Dhvani Indian Langauge TTS to KDE desktop through its TTS system KTTS. Using this you can dhvani can read the text in kate,kedit,kwrite, Konqueror. You can even listen to the text in the webpages in Konqueror
Dhvani can be itegrated to KTTS using its Command plugin feature. To do this go to control center-->Regional and Accessibility -->Text-to-speech -->Talker Tab. Add a new Synthesizer.
Select the syntesizer type as Command and Langauge as Other. You can select any language since Dhvani doesn't want langauge parameter and it detects the language automatically.
Give the synthesizer command as dhvani %f
Move this synthesizer to top in the list of Synthesizers and Click apply. Done.
Now take a UTF-8 text in any of the editors described above or take a webpage in any of the supported language. From the tools menu take Speak Text and listen !!!
For for information about dhvani, how to install etc see the documentation
Dhvani can be itegrated to KTTS using its Command plugin feature. To do this go to control center-->Regional and Accessibility -->Text-to-speech -->Talker Tab. Add a new Synthesizer.
Select the syntesizer type as Command and Langauge as Other. You can select any language since Dhvani doesn't want langauge parameter and it detects the language automatically.
Give the synthesizer command as dhvani %f
Move this synthesizer to top in the list of Synthesizers and Click apply. Done.
Now take a UTF-8 text in any of the editors described above or take a webpage in any of the supported language. From the tools menu take Speak Text and listen !!!
For for information about dhvani, how to install etc see the documentation
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Can't Speak? Dhvani will speak for you!
Mar. 16th, 2008 | 09:22 pm
Dhvani can help not only blind users but also dumb users. I will explain how dhvani act as your mouth using KMouth.
Kmouth is as KDE Accessibility Appllication and it act as a test to speech front end. KMouth is a program that enables persons that cannot speak to let their computers speak. It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken. It learns the words the user wrote and have autocompletion. It also includes a phrasebook, using that you can store the commonly used phrases for quick access.
We will see how dhvani can be used with Kmouth.
open KMouth : KMenu->Utilities->Accessibility->Kmouth.
You will get configuration window and give the "Command to speak text" as dhvani %f
Done. Now you can type some text in the Kmouth and ask it speak.
To avoid typing the words that are used often, create a Phrasebook. Refer KMouth Help document for that. You can also add a wordlist so that you will get autocompletion feature while typing words. Refer Kmouth Handbook for that also. It is easy and just a matter of giving some text file to learn.
I hope it will be helpfull for the dumb users even though there are some practical problem like keeping the computer with them...
For for information about dhvani, how to install etc see the documentation
Kmouth is as KDE Accessibility Appllication and it act as a test to speech front end. KMouth is a program that enables persons that cannot speak to let their computers speak. It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken. It learns the words the user wrote and have autocompletion. It also includes a phrasebook, using that you can store the commonly used phrases for quick access.
We will see how dhvani can be used with Kmouth.
open KMouth : KMenu->Utilities->Accessibility->Kmouth.
You will get configuration window and give the "Command to speak text" as dhvani %f
Done. Now you can type some text in the Kmouth and ask it speak.
To avoid typing the words that are used often, create a Phrasebook. Refer KMouth Help document for that. You can also add a wordlist so that you will get autocompletion feature while typing words. Refer Kmouth Handbook for that also. It is easy and just a matter of giving some text file to learn.
I hope it will be helpfull for the dumb users even though there are some practical problem like keeping the computer with them...
For for information about dhvani, how to install etc see the documentation