Jovie

Categories:   Unmaintained

This app is unmaintained and no longer released by the KDE community.

Screenshot of Jovie

User Features:

  • Speak any text from the KDE clipboard
  • Speak any plain text file
  • Speak all or any portion of a text file from Kate, including instances where Kate is embedded in another KDE application
  • Speak all or any portion of an HTML page from Konqueror
  • Use as the speech backend for KMouth and KSayIt
  • Speak KDE notifications (KNotify)
  • User-configurable filters for substituting misspoken words, choosing speech synthesizers, and transforming XHMTL/XML documents

Programmer Features:

  • Priority system for screen reader outputs, warnings and messages, while still playing regular texts
  • Permit generation of speech from the command line (or via shell scripts) using the qdbus utility
  • Provide a lightweight and easily usable interface for applications to generate speech output
  • Applications need not be concerned about contention over the speech device
  • FUTURE: Provide support for speech markup languages, such as VoiceXML, Sable, Java Speech Markup Language (JSML), and Speech Markup Meta-language (SMML)
  • FUTURE: Provide limited support for embedded speech markers
  • Asynchronous to prevent system blocking