Is there any chance that the Jovie became a screen reader, Is there any chance that the jovie and TTS will be improved in future relase??? Why It dosnt work.
There is no option to read the text in clipboard activites!!!
please share what You think about it

See KDE accessibility info at http://community.kde.org/Accessibility. Subscribe to the mailing list at https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility. The KDE Accessibility team can always use more support! Also available is the #kde-accessibility channel on Freenode IRC network.

Hi, as you can notice by this new forum category, there is much activity in KDE Accessibility lately.

We are about to get many applications to work with the Gnome screen reader Orca. This is still somewhat experimental, but with the resources above you could start testing.

We are very curious to get user feedback what the state actually is. Since we are just starting, there is much to be learned. I think once we get some user feedback, accessibility is about to become as great as other parts of KDE

Hello,

Yes, Jovie will likely never be a screen reader, however it is not quite working well at the moment anyway. I'll fix that. Work is being done to make kde applications work well with the orca screen reader also.

thanks for replies.
I was trying to make my work with orca. but not succeded. (used repo version of orca).
I would like to use only kde native apps writed in qt ( cause of oxygen-transparent, and better integration)
when the gnome is just ugly. But right now it will be great to have something working right away.

And the synthesis in orca is much better then in jovie
I use that syntezator
http://www.ivona.com
with open sapi server. Beautifull speech. But the best in orca.

here are some work made by Ethank, unfortunatelly only in polish language.
http://milena.polip.com/

I hope to see working orca with kde, or beter native app with support for all apps like rekonq, firefox, libreoffice, caligra, agregator, kmail etc.

This is my first time post, sorry if this the wrong place to post. I have serious eye problems and I am using KDE for 15 years. Started using TTS apps on KDE a few years ago and I have Jovie running fine on Suse 12.1. I want to reconfigure jovie (to test different settings) but I can not find how to get to the settings dialog. I looked in KDE configuration (accessibility), ran info jovie, man jovie and looked on the KDE accessibility documentation, google etc. The jovie configuration screen appeared fine the first time I used it, but after that, from the command line "jovie" only starts the program. I am using KDE 4.7.2 (4.7.2) "release 5". Thanks, Gustav

gusdg - you really should upgrade both your version of openSUSE and of KDE,
- 1) per the openSuse website:

Note openSUSE 12.1 has been succeeded by openSUSE 12.2 and openSUSE 12.3 and is at its End of Life as of May 6, 2013.

- 2) KDE is currently at 4.11.1

also as this is a new/different topic you should start a separate thread

to change settings (at least in 4.11) right click system tray icon -> configure Jovie OR systemsettings -> Accessibility -> text-to-speech

Yes, sorry I should start a new thread. But I am visually impaired and I could not find the place where to do that. But there is quite a prominent button to reply to the thread. Yes, I have installed Suse 12.3 on a separate partition but I am still not using it because I have not gotten my TTS applications working on it. I had FoxVox for Firefox (a TTS plugin) which is no longer available for the newer Firefox. And Jovie is still not configured, so I am trying to test different settings on it to better implement the TTS system in the 12.3 install.

Specifically the Jovie manual says that with the configuration GUI there is a place to "test" settings. In my current KDE version the Desktop Settings - Accessibility allows some adjustment of the TTS, but no testing. Is this where Jovie settings are re-cofnigured after the first install? Thanks, Gustav.

I don't use Jovie and the version I haves 6.0 so there may be differences

I looked at the handbook and don't see anything called "test" but the "jobs" tab seems to provide that functionality though it will only work if no voices are configured in the "talkers" tab (per the handbook)

to start a new thread you need to be in a forum not a thread, if you can see at the bottom the word Accessibility this is the thread's forum name (obviously different depending on the thread), clicking it will bring you to that forum - hovering over it will display the a bread crumb of all the parent forums. Clicking the "Board Index" at the top of the page will show all available forums.

Thanks for your very quick replies. I will try to start a new thread and check out the configuration where you indicate. Gustav.