Ubuntu 11.04 and jovie v 0.6.0

kline · 05-14-2011, 02:44 AM

What used to be kttsd is now called "jovie" I think. So far this daemon does nothing, and there is very little about this. Nothing that I can find on the ubuntuforums; and virtually nothing elsewhere that I can google up. The last Ubuntu version was 8.04 that I had the text-to-speech stuff going.

Can anybody here clue me in? FWIW, kmouth is installed and works, but I can do more with the kttsd/jovie backend than any other text-to-speech-ware. Thanks for any clues!

andrewthomas · 05-14-2011, 12:28 PM

Have you looked here?
Package: jovie (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1)

Quote:

a Text-to-Speech system for KDE
The KDE Text-to-Speech system is a plugin based service that allows any KDE (or non-KDE) application to speak using the D-Bus interface.
It uses the speech-dispatcher daemon for the actual speech job; kmouth is an useful front-end for it.
This package is part of KDE 4 accessibility module.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/jovie

kline · 05-14-2011, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

Have you looked here?
Package: jovie (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1)

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/jovie

It looks as tho everything was installed. Maybe one package needed to be reinstalled, not sure. Anyway, right now and for the past 45 minutes, the "Ubuntu Software Center" utility is trying to reinstall 'jovie' ... and seems to be hung.

Nutshell, dunno. tx much.

andrewthomas · 05-14-2011, 07:08 PM

If you are having a problem with software center, then close it down and

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall jovie

in the terminal

kline · 05-14-2011, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

If you are having a problem with software center, then close it down and

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall jovie

in the terminal

Got it; so now everything has been reinstalled, but jovie still just sits there. kmouth still works, but that's not what I want. I want to play with the daemon.