KSayit 0.8.2 review

KSayIt is a small KDE3 utilitiy for Linux that simply speaks a given textfile in a very high quality, i.e

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Robert Vogl

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KSayIt is a small KDE3 utilitiy for Linux that simply speaks a given textfile in a very high quality, i.e. sound and pronounciation of the spoken text should be as (human) natural as possible.

To achieve this, KSayIt uses natively Text-To-Speech systems like MBrola, any TTS system that can be controlled via a command line or any TTS system that is supported by the upcoming KDE TTS system (i.e. Festival).

KSayIt offers three user interfaces: A simple text editor window in which you can enter or paste text that should be spoken after pressing a play button, as well as an icon in the systemtray that starts to speak by a single mouseclick the actual content of the clipboard (if it contains something that looks like text).

As a KDE application it offers also a DCOP interface for the say and shut-up action (see 'kdcop'). Finally KSayIt provides an effectstack to postprocess the sound of the voice (currently only a Freeverb effect is included)

What's New in This Release:
KSayIt now interfaces to various TTS systems via loadable modules (plugins).
Currently the following TTS plugins are in the package:
Native support for MBrola/txt2pho.
Support for any user defined command that accepts text from stdin, therefore KSayIt can now speak languages other than German.
Support for the upcoming KDE TTS Daemon (KTTSD is part of the kdenonbeta package).
Additional controls (Pause, Resume, Next Sentence, Previous Sentence, if supported by the plugin).
Audio Effects are also plugins now.