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Re: Bug#707196: Activate software speech synthesiser in KDE too (for desktop=kde installs)?



>From what I understand, kde offers ktts and jovie.  I don't know that 
the combination constitutes a full screen reader solution though and it 
may not be feasible to  extend espeakup into kde.

On Wed, 8 May 2013, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> 
> Package:  espeakup-udeb
> Version:  1:0.71-13
> Severity: wishlist
> User:     debian-edu@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: debian-edu
> 
> The Wheezy installer have a very nice option to get the installer to
> speak, and if this is enabled the configuration is passed on to Gnome to
> continue the load speaking experience also after boot.
> 
> But when installing using desktop=kde, the resulting desktop is not
> configured to speak up.
> 
> Could espeakup-udeb be extended to install and set up the required
> packages for a KDE desktop too?  I am not sure what should be installed
> or set up, but have read somewhere that KDE uses festival for its load
> speaking abilities.
> 
> Even if KDE isn't using espeakup, I suspect it do not make sense to
> provide several speakup mechanism within d-i, and that the espeakup-udeb
> package should handle KDE speakup too.
> 
> 

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