I'm on Slackware 14.1 64/KDE4 and I just discovered that the clock system tray app can speak the time when something called "Jovie" is installed, with some dependencies. This is not yet the case on my system. I performed a complete install of Slackware but the KDE accessibility package is not contained apparently.

So, I wanted to install it manually but I can't find a single link to the Jovie source code on Google. There are some pages talking about what Jovie is and what it can do, and how to use its API but not one link to a source download or a repository.

My question then is: can anyone point me to the sources? I wouldn't like to rebuild all of kde though, only if it proves necessary to get the desired Jovie I might do so. Also, I'd like to find a complete list of all required software to build Jovie successfully and where those sources are at. I'm running KDE 4.10.5.

Thanks a million!

https://docs.kde.org/trunk4/en/kdeacces ... ation.html
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilit ... evelopment

I now have the sources but they won't compile.

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jovie/kcmkttsmgr/talkerwidget.cpp:78:44: error: ‘org::kde::KSpeech’ has no member named ‘getPossibleTalkers’
     QStringList possibleTalkers = kspeech->getPossibleTalkers();


There is however a getPossibleTalkers() definition in jovie/speaker.h, or in class Speaker (which i take is not being included) as opposed to org::kde::KSpeech.
There's also this error:

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error: ‘org::kde::KSpeech’ has no member named ‘setPunctuationType’


These methods belong to class Speaker, and there's no such thing on my system.

Is this an old version of kcmkttsmgr? Do I have to install something else first? I sure wish slackware created a kde-accessibility package...

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rm CMakeCache.txt

in the build directory. Then run cmake again

and no I have no idea why you would need to but try it anyhow (this is based on a similar error and its solution for compiling Okular)

I am having the same problem (also Slackware 14), been looking for days. Now I found the Jovie anongit but compile fails on:
-- Could NOT find Speechd (missing: SPEECHD_INCLUDE_DIR SPEECHD_LIBRARIES)
I must say, this whole process was much less confusing before git. Anyway, I'm searching for the dependencies now and I really wish there was one place that checked for and DLd EVERYTHING required in one go. This process of hunting down dependencies is irritating.