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/** @mainpage KSpeech
A D-Bus Interface to Text-to-Speech Service
@version 2.0 Draft 1
@section kspeech_intro Introduction to the KSpeech D-Bus Interface
%KSpeech is a D-Bus interface for applications desiring to speak text.
Applications may speak text by sending D-Bus messages to application
"org.kde.kttsd", object path "/KSpeech", interface "org.kde.KSpeech".
%KTTSD -- the KDE Text-to-Speech Daemon -- is the program that supplies the services
in the KDE Text-to-Speech API.
@warning The %KSpeech interface is still being developed and is likely to change in the future.
@section kspeech_apiref API Reference
- <a href="classes.html">All Classes</a>
- <a href="annotated.html">Annotated Classes</a>
@section Features
- Priority system for Screen Readers, warnings and messages, while still playing
regular texts.
- Long text is parsed into sentences. User may backup by sentence,
replay, pause, and stop playing.
- Handles multiple speaking applications. Speech requests are treated like print jobs.
Jobs may be created, stopped, paused, resumed, and deleted.
- Speak contents of clipboard.
- Speak contents of a file.
- Speak KDE notifications.
- Plugin-based job filtering permits substitution for misspoken words,
abbreviations, etc., transformation of XML or XHTML to SSML, and automatic
choice of appropriate synthesis engine.
@section Requirements
You may build any KDE application to use %KSpeech, since the interface is in kdelibs, but
the kdeaccessibility package must be installed for KTTS to function.
You will need a speech synthesis engine, such as Festival. See the KTTS Handbook
for the latest information on installing and configuring speech engines and voices
with KTTS.
@section goals Design Goals
The KDE Text-to-Speech API is designed with the following goals:
- Support the features enumerated above.
- Plugin-based architecture for support of a wide variety of speech synthesis
engines and drivers.
- Permit generation of speech from the command line (or via shell scripts)
using the KDE D-Bus utilities.
- Provide a lightweight and easily usable interface for applications to
generate speech output.
- Applications need not be concerned about contention over the speech device.
- Provide limited support for speech markup languages, such as %Speech Markup Meta-language (SMML).
- Provide limited support for embedded speech markers.
- Asynchronous to prevent system blocking.
- Plugin-based audio architecture. Currently supports ALSA or Phonon.
Architecturally, applications interface with %KTTSD, which performs queuing,
speech job management, plugin management and sentence parsing. %KTTSD interfaces with a
%KTTSD speech plugin(s), which then interfaces with the speech engine(s) or driver(s).
@verbatim
application
^
| via D-Bus (the KDE Text-to-Speech API)
v
kttsd
^
| KTTSD plugin API
v
kttsd plugin
^
|
v
speech engine
@endverbatim
The %KTTSD Plugin API is documented in PluginConf in the kdeaccessibility module.
There is a separate GUI application, called kttsmgr, for providing %KTTSD
configuration and job management.
@section jobsandpriorities Speech Jobs and Priorities
When a request for speech is made, usually via the @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::say method,
a speech job is queued. The order by which jobs are spoken is determined
by their priority (in decreasing priority):
- Screen Reader Output
- Warnings
- Messages
- Text Jobs
Screen Reader output pre-empts any other speech in progress,
including other Screen Reader outputs, i.e., it is not a queue.
This is reserved for use by Screen Readers.
Warnings take priority over Messages, which take priority
over text jobs. Warnings and Messages are spoken when the currently-speaking
sentence of a text job is finished.
Text Jobs are the lowest priority are used for long text or general
TTS.
The priority of jobs is determined by the @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::setDefaultPriority method.
After setting the priority, all subsequent say commands are queued
at that priority.
Within a job, the application (and user
via the kttsmgr GUI), may back up or advance by sentence, or rewind
to the beginning.
@see OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::moveRelSentence.
All jobs may be paused, resumed or deleted (stopped) from the queue.
@see OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::pause, OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::resume, OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::removeJob, and OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::removeAllJobs.
@section cmdline D-Bus Command-line Interface
Examples of using the %KSpeech interface via command-line D-Bus follow.
To create a text job to be spoken
@verbatim
qdbus org.kde.kttsd "/KSpeech" say <text> <options>
@endverbatim
where \<text\> is the text to be spoken, and \<options\> is one of the
options defined in the @ref KSpeech::SayOptions enum. Normally, this can be entered
as zero.
Example.
@verbatim
qdbus org.kde.kttsd "/KSpeech" say "Hello World." 0
@endverbatim
To stop speaking and delete the last queued job.
@verbatim
qdbus org.kde.kttsd "/KSpeech" removeJob 0
@endverbatim
Depending upon the speech plugin used, speaking may not immediately stop.
The zero argument in this case is the job number to be removed.
Zero means "the current job".
@section programming Calling KTTSD from a Program
There are two methods of making D-Bus calls from your application to %KTTSD.
- Manually code them using QDBusInterface object. See kdebase/konqueror/kttsplugin/khtmlkttsd.cpp
for an example. This method is recommended if you want to make a few simple calls to %KTTSD.
- Use OrgKdeKSpeechInterface as described below. This method generates the marshalling code for you
and is recommended for a more complex speech-enabled applications. kcmkttsmgr in the
kdeaccessibility module is an example that uses this method.
@subsection manual_code Manual code
Sending a text job to %KSpeech is very simple. Sample code:
@verbatim
#include <QtCore/QtDBus>
QDBusInterface kspeech("org.kde.kttsd", "/KSpeech", "org.kde.KSpeech");
// Send a string to KTTS and get back a job number.
kspeech.call("setApplicationName", "MyApp");
QDBusReply<int> reply = kspeech.call("say", "Hello World.", 0);
@endverbatim
Notice the call to @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::setApplicationName. All applications should
do this before submitting any jobs so that a friendly name will appear
in kttsmgr.
Here's a slightly more complicated sample that sets the job priority
to Message and specifies a language code ("en" or "de", for example):
@verbatim
#include <QtCore/QtDBus>
#include <kspeech>
bool kttsdSay (const QString &text, const QString &language) {
// TODO: Would be better to save off this QDBusInterface pointer and
// set applicationName and defaults only once.
QDBusInterface kspeech("org.kde.kttsd", "/KSpeech", "org.kde.KSpeech");
kspeech.call("setApplicationName", "KMouth");
kspeech.call("setDefaultTalker", language);
kspeech.call("setDefaultPriority", KSpeech::jpMessage);
QDBusReply<int> reply = kspeech.call("say", text, 0);
return (reply != 0);
}
@endverbatim
It is not necessary to call setDefaultTalker and setDefaultPriority
prior to each call to say. These settings remain in effect for
all subsequent calls to say.
@subsection kspeechinterface Using OrgKdeKSpeechInterface
Begin by adding the following command to your CMakeLists.txt file so
that the build system will generate kspeechinterface.h and
kspeechinterface.cpp for you from the org.kde.KSpeech.xml interface
definition file using qdbusxml2cpp utility.
@verbatim
qt4_add_dbus_interfaces(myapp_SRCS org.kde.KSpeech.xml )
@endverbatim
Substitute your application's SRCS target for "myapp".
TODO: At present, to make the command above work, you must copy
org.kde.KSpeech.xml from kdelibs/interfaces/kspeech to your source
directory, but this will change in the future.
In your application's .h file, add the following code to declare
a variable to hold an instance of OrgKdeKSpeechInterface object.
You can also declare slots to receive signals from %KTTSD.
Typically, you will do this as part of a class.
@verbatim
#include <QtCore/QObject>
#include "kspeechinterface.h"
class MyClass : public QObject {
Q_OBJECT
public:
MyClass(QObject *parent=0);
~MyClass();
protected Q_SLOTS:
Q_SCRIPTABLE void jobStateChanged(const QString &appId, int jobNum, int state);
private:
org::kde::KSpeech* m_kspeech;
}
@endverbatim
In the .cpp file, determine if %KTTSD is running, create the
OrgKdeKSpeechInterface object, and connect signals to slots like this:
@verbatim
MyClass::MyClass(QObject *parent) : QObject(parent), m_kspeech(0) { }
bool MyClass::isKttsdRunning()
{
bool isRunning = (QDBus::sessionBus().interface()->isServiceRegistered("org.kde.kttsd"));
if (isRunning) {
if (!m_kspeech) {
m_kspeech = new OrgKdeKSpeechInterface("org.kde.kttsd", "/KSpeech", QDBus::sessionBus());
m_kspeech->setParent(this);
m_kspeech->setApplicationName("MyApp");
connect(m_kspeech, SIGNAL(jobStateChanged(const QString&, int, int)),
this, SLOT(jobStateChanged(const QString&, int, int)));
}
} else {
delete m_kspeech;
m_kspeech = 0;
}
return isRunning;
}
@endverbatim
Notice that the application sets a friendly display name for itself.
If this is not done, the D-Bus connection name (example: ":1.16") will be shown
in kttsmgr.
To submit a simple job of priority Text using the default talker:
@verbatim
if (m_kspeech)
int jobNum = m_kspeech->say("Hello World", 0);
@endverbatim
The second argument to "say" is used to give hints to %KTTSD about the
contents of the text. See @ref KSpeech::SayOptions.
Talkers determine the synthesizer and language that will be used for TTS.
To change the talker to a German-speaking one:
@verbatim
if (m_kspeech)
m_kspeech->setDefaultTalker("de");
@endverbatim
All subsequent calls to say will use this talker. See @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::getTalkerCodes.
If you want to detect if %KTTSD is installed without starting it,
use this code.
@verbatim
KTrader::OfferList offers = KTrader::self()->query("DBUS/Text-to-Speech", "Name == 'KTTSD'");
if (offers.count() > 0)
{
// KTTSD is installed.
}
@endverbatim
Typically, you would do this to hide a menu item or button if %KTTSD is not installed.
If %KTTSD is not running, you can start it:
// TODO: Use D-Bus start service or KTrader?
To detect if %KTTSD has exited, you can use the @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::kttsdExiting signal, or you
connect the D-Bus serviceUnregistered signal, like this:
@verbatim
connect (QDBus::sessionBus().interface(), SIGNAL(serviceUnregistered(const QString&)),
this, SLOT(slotServiceUnregistered(const QString&)));
void MyClass::slotServiceUnregistered(const QString& serviceName)
{
if (serviceName == "org.kde.kttsd") {
delete m_kspeech;
m_kspeech = 0;
}
}
@endverbatim
@section signals Signals Emitted by KTTSD
%KTTSD emits a number of D-Bus signals, which provide information about sentences spoken,
jobs started, paused, interrupted, finished, or deleted and markers seen.
In general, these signals are broadcast to any application that connects to them.
Applications should check the appId argument to determine whether the signal belongs to
them or not.
@verbatim
void MyClass::jobStateChanged(const QString &appId, int jobNum, int state)
{
if (appId != QDBus::sessionBus().baseService()) return;
if (KSpeech::jsFinished == state)
// jobNum has finished speaking.
}
@endverbatim
@see OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::jobStateChanged
@see OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::marker
@see OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::kttsdExiting
@section talkers Talkers, Talker Codes, and Plugins
Many of the methods permit you to specify a desired "talker". This
may be a simple language code, such as "en" for English, "es" for Spanish, etc.
Code as "" to use the default configured talker.
Within KttsMgr, the user has the ability to configure more than one talker for each language,
with different voices, genders, volumes, and talking speeds.
Talker codes serve two functions:
- They identify configured plugins, and
- They provide a way for applications to specify the desired speaking attributes
that influence the choice of plugin to speak text.
A Talker Code consists of a series of XML tags and attributes.
An example of a full Talker Code with all attributes specified is
@verbatim
<voice lang="en" name="kal" gender="male"/>
<prosody volume="soft" rate="fast"/>
<kttsd synthesizer="Festival" />
@endverbatim
(The @e voice and @e prosody tags are adapted from the W3C Speech Synthesis
Markup Language (SSML) and Java Speech Markup Language (JSML).
The @e kttsd tag is an extension to the SMML and JSML languages to support
named synthesizers and text encodings.)
%KTTS doesn't really care about the @e voice, @e prosody, and @e kttsd tags. In fact,
they may be omitted and just the attributes specified. The example above then
becomes
lang="en" name="kal" gender="male" volume="soft" rate="fast"
synthesizer="Festival"
The attributes may be specified in any order.
For clarity, the rest of the discussion
will omit the @e voice, @e prosody, and @e kttsd tags.
The attributes that make up a talker code are:
- @e lang. Language code and optional country code.
Examples: en, es, en_US, en_GB. Codes
are case in-sensitive and hyphen (-) or underscore (_) may be
used to separate the country code from the language code.
- @e synthesizer. The name of the synthesizer (plugin) used to produce the speech.
- @e gender. May be either "male", "female", or "neutral".
- @e name. The name of the voice code.
The choice of voice codes is synthesizer-specific.
- @e volume. May be "loud", "medium", or "quiet". A synonym for "quiet" is
"soft".
- @e rate. May be "fast", "medium", or "slow".
Each plugin, once it has been configured by a user in kttsmgr, returns a
fully-specified talker code to identify itself. If the plugin supports it,
the user may configure another instance of the plugin with a different set
of attributes. This is the difference between a "plugin" and a "talker".
A talker is a configured instance of a plugin. Each plugin (if it supports it)
may be configured as multiple talkers.
When the user configures %KTTSD, she configures one or more talkers and then
places them in preferred order, top to bottom in kttsmgr. In effect,
she specifies her preferences for each of the talkers.
When applications specify a talker code, they need not (and typically do not)
give a full specification. An example of a talker code with only some of the
attributes specified might be
lang="en" gender="female"
If the talker code is not in XML attribute format, it assumed to be a @e lang
attribute. So the talker code
en
is interpreted as
lang="en"
When a program requests a talker code in calls to @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::setDefaultTalker,
%KTTSD tries to match the requested talker code to the closest matching
configured talker.
The @e lang attribute has highest priority (attempting to speak English with
a Spanish synthesizer would likely be unintelligible). So the language
attribute is said to have "priority".
If an application does not specify a language attribute, a default one will be assumed.
The rest of the attributes are said to be "preferred". If %KTTSD cannot find
a talker with the exact preferred attributes requested, the closest matching
talker will likely still be understandable.
An application may specify that one or more of the attributes it gives in a talker
code have priority by preceding each priority attribute with an asterisk.
For example, the following talker code
lang="en" gender="*female" volume="soft"
means that the application wants to use a talker that supports American English language
and Female gender. If there is more than one such talker, one that supports
Soft volume would be preferred. Notice that a talker configured as English, Male,
and Soft volume would not be picked as long as an English Female talker is
available.
The algorithm used by %KTTSD to find a matching talker is as follows:
- If language code is not specified by the application, assume default configured
by user. The primary language code automatically has priority.
- (Note: This is not yet implemented.)
If there are no talkers configured in the language, %KTTSD will attempt
to automatically configure one (see automatic configuraton discussion below)
- The talker that matches on the most priority attributes wins.
- If a tie, the one that matches on the most preferred attributes wins.
- If there is still a tie, the one nearest the top of the kttsmgr display
(first configured) will be chosen.
Language codes actually consist of two parts, a language code and an optional
country code. For example, en_GB is English (United Kingdom). The language code is
treated as a priority attribute, but the country code (if specified) is treated
as preferred. So for example, if an application requests the following
talker code
lang="en_GB" gender="male" volume="medium"
then a talker configured as lang="en" gender="male" volume="medium" would be
picked over one configured as lang="en_GB" gender="female" volume="soft",
since the former matches on two preferred attributes and the latter only on the
preferred attribute GB. An application can override this and make the country
code priority with an asterisk. For example,
lang="*en_GB" gender="male" volume="medium"
To specify that American English is priority, put an asterisk in front of
en_US, like this.
lang="*en_US" gender="male" volume="medium"
Here the application is indicating that a talker that speaks American English
has priorty over one that speaks a different form of English.
(Note: Not yet implemented).
If a language code is specified, and no plugin is currently configured
with a matching language code, %KTTSD will attempt to automatically
load and configure a plugin to support the requested language. If
there is no such plugin, or there is a plugin but it cannot automatically
configure itself, %KTTSD will pick one of the configured plugins using the
algorithm given above.
Notice that %KTTSD will always pick a talker, even if it is a terrible match.
(The principle is that something heard is better than nothing at all. If
it sounds terrible, user will change his configuration.)
If an attribute is absolutely mandatory -- in other words the application
must speak with the attribute or not at all -- the application can determine if
there are any talkers configured with the attribute by calling @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::getTalkerCodes,
and if there are none, display an error message to the user.
Applications can implement their own talker-matching algorithm by
calling getTalkerCodes, then finding the desired talker from the returned
list. When the full talker code is passed in, %KKTSD will find an exact
match and use the specified talker.
If an application requires a configuration that user has not created,
it should display a message to user instructing them to run kttsmgr and
configure the desired talker. (This must be done interactively because
plugins often need user assistance locating voice files, etc.)
The above scheme is designed to balance the needs
of applications against user preferences. Applications are given the control
they @e might need, without unnecessarily burdening the application author.
If you are an application author, the above discussion might seem overly
complicated. It isn't really all that complicated. Here are rules of thumb:
- It is legitimate to not call @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::setDefaultTalker, in which case, the user's default
talker will be used.
- If you know the language code, give that in the talker code, otherwise
leave it out.
- If there is an attribute your application @e requires for proper functioning,
specify that with an asterisk in front of it. For example, your app might
speak in two different voices, Male and Female. (Since your
app requires both genders, call getTalkers to determine if both genders
are available, and if not, advise user to configure them. Better yet,
give the user a choice of available distinquishing attributes
(loud/soft, fast/slow, etc.)
- If there are other attributes you would prefer, specify those without an
asterisk, but leave them out if it doesn't really make any difference
to proper functioning of your application. Let the user decide them
when they configure %KTTS.
One final note about talkers. %KTTSD does talker matching for each sentence
spoken, just before the sentence is sent to a plugin for synthesis. Therefore,
the user can change the effective talker in mid processing of a text job by
changing his preferences, or even deleting or adding new talkers to the configuration.
@section markup Speech Markup
Note: %Speech Markup is not yet fully implemented in %KTTSD.
The text passed in a call to @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::say may contain speech markup,
provided that the plugin the user has configured supports that markup. The markup
languages and plugins currently supported are:
- %Speech Synthesis Markup language (SSML): Festival and Hadifix.
This may change in the future as synthesizers improve.
Before including markup in the text sent to kttsd, the application should
query whether the currently-configured plugin
supports the markup language by calling @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::getTalkerCapabilities1.
It it does not support the markup, it will be stripped out of the text.
@section markers Support for Markers
Note: Markers are not yet fully implemented in %KTTSD. At present,
only mtSentenceBegin and mtSentenceEnd are emitted.
When using a speech markup language, such as SSML, the application may embed
named markers into the text. If the user's chosen speech plugin supports markers, %KTTSD
will emit @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::marker signals when the speech engine encounters the marker.
Depending upon the speech engine and plugin, this may occur either when the speech engine
encounters the marker during synthesis from text to speech, or when the speech is actually
spoken on the audio device. The calling application can call the @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::getTalkerCapabilities1
method to determine if the currently configured plugin supports markers or not.
@section sentenceparsing Sentence Parsing
Not all speech engines provide robust capabilities for stopping synthesis that is in progress.
To compensate for this, %KTTSD parses jobs given to it by the @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::say
method into sentences and sends the sentences to the speech
plugin one at a time. In this way, should the user wish to stop the speech
output, they can do so, and the worst that will happen is that the last sentence
will be completed. This is called Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD).
Sentence Boundary Detection also permits the user to rewind by sentences.
The default sentence delimiter used for plain text is as follows:
- A period (.), question mark (?), exclamation mark (!), colon (:), or
semi-colon (;) followed by whitespace (including newline), or
- Two newlines in a row separated by optional whitespace, or
- The end of the text.
When given text containing speech markup, %KTTSD automatically determines the markup type
and parses based on the sentence semantics of the markup language.
An application may change the sentence delimiter by calling @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::setSentenceDelimiter
prior to calling @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::say. Changing the delimiter does not affect other
applications.
Jobs of priority Screen Reader Output are not split into sentences.
For this reason, applicatons should avoid sending long messages
of priority KSpeech::jpScreenReaderOutput.
Sentence Boundary Detection is implemented as a plugin SBD filter. See
filters for more information.
@section filters Filters
Users may specify filters in the kttsmgr GUI. Filters are plugins that modify the text
to be spoken or change other characteristics of jobs. Currently, the following filter plugins
are available:
- String Replacer. Permits users to substitute for mispoken words, or vocalize chat
emoticons.
- XML Transformer. Given a particular XML or XHTML format, permits conversion of the
XML to SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) using XSLT (XML Style Language - Transforms)
stylesheets.
- Talker Chooser. Permits users to redirect jobs from one configured Talker to another
based on the contents of the job or application that sent it.
Additional plugins may be available in the future.
In additional to these regular filters, KTTS also implements Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD)
as a plugin filter. See @ref sentenceparsing for more information.
Applications may control filtering by calling @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::setFilteringOn.
Note: SBD filters are never applied to Screen Reader jobs.
@authors
Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt@comcast.net>
@maintainers
Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt@comcast.net>
@licenses
@lgpl
*/
/**
* @class KSpeech
* @brief Constants and Enums for the %KSpeech D-Bus interface.
*
* \#include "kspeech.h"
*
* Note: Applications do not use this class directly. Instead,
* use the @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface object as described in
* @ref programming.
*
* See also @ref kspeech_intro
*/
class KSpeech : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
/**
@enum JobPriority
The priority of jobs submitted by @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::say.
*/
enum JobPriority
{
jpAll = 0, /**< All priorities. Used for information retrieval only. */
jpScreenReaderOutput = 1, /**< Screen Reader job. */
jpWarning = 2, /**< Warning job. */
jpMessage = 3, /**< Message job.*/
jpText = 4 /**< Text job. */
};
/**
@enum JobState
Job states returned by method @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::getJobState.
*/
enum JobState
{
jsQueued = 0, /**< Job has been queued but is not yet speakable. */
jsFiltering = 1, /**< Job is being filtered. */
jsSpeakable = 2, /**< Job is speakable, but is not speaking. */
jsSpeaking = 3, /**< Job is currently speaking. */
jsPaused = 4, /**< Job is paused. */
jsInterrupted = 5, /**< Job is paused because it has been interrupted by another job. */
jsFinished = 6, /**< Job is finished and is deleteable. */
jsDeleted = 7 /**< Job is deleted from the queue. */
};
/**
@enum SayOptions
Hints about text content when sending via @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::say.
*/
enum SayOptions
{
soNone = 0x0000, /**< No options specified. Autodetected. */
soPlainText = 0x0001, /**< The text contains plain text. */
soHtml = 0x0002, /**< The text contains HTML markup. */
soSsml = 0x0004, /**< The text contains SSML markup. */
// FUTURE:
soChar = 0x0008, /**< The text should be spoken as individual characters. */
soKey = 0x0010, /**< The text contains a keyboard symbolic key name. */
soSoundIcon = 0x0020 /**< The text is the name of a sound icon. */
};
/**
@enum TalkerCapabilities1
Flags for synthesizer/talker capabilities returned
by @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::getTalkerCapabilities1.
All items marked FALSE are hard-coded off at this time.
*/
enum TalkerCapabilities1
{
tcCanListVoices = 0x00000001,
tcCanSetVoiceByProperties = 0x00000002,
tcCanGetCurrentVoice = 0x00000004,
tcCanSetRateRelative = 0x00000008, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetRateAbsolute = 0x00000010,
tcCanGetRateDefault = 0x00000020,
tcCanSetPitchRelative = 0x00000040, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetPitchAbsolute = 0x00000080,
tcCanGetPitchDefault = 0x00000100,
tcCanSetPitchRangeRelative = 0x00000200, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetPitchRangeAbsolute = 0x00000400, /**< FALSE */
tcCanGetPitchRangeDefault = 0x00000800, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetVolumeRelative = 0x00001000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetVolumeAbsolute = 0x00002000,
tcCanGetVolumeDefault = 0x00004000,
tcCanSetPunctuationModeAll = 0x00008000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetPunctuationModeNone = 0x00010000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetPunctuationModeSome = 0x00020000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetPunctuationDetail = 0x00040000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetCapitalLettersModeSpelling = 0x00080000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetCapitalLettersModeIcon = 0x00100000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetCapitalLettersModePitch = 0x00200000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetNumberGrouping = 0x00400000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSayTextFromPosition = 0x00800000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSayChar = 0x01000000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSayKey = 0x02000000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSayIcon = 0x04000000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanSetDictionary = 0x08000000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanRetrieveAudio = 0x10000000, /**< FALSE */
tcCanPlayAudio = 0x20000000 /**< FALSE */
};
/**
@enum TalkerCapabilities2
All items marked FALSE are hard-coded off at this time.
*/
enum TalkerCapabilities2
{
tcCanReportEventsBySentences = 0x00000001,
tcCanReportEventsByWords = 0x00000002, /**< FALSE */
tcCanReportCustomIndexMarks = 0x00000004, /**< FALSE */
tcHonorsPerformanceGuidelines1 = 0x00000008, /**< FALSE */
tcHonorsPerformanceGuidelines2 = 0x00000010, /**< FALSE */
tcHonorsPerformanceGuidelines = 0x00000018, /**< FALSE */
tcCanDeferMessage = 0x00000020, /**< FALSE */
tcCanParseSsml = 0x00000040,
tcSupportsMultilingualUtterances = 0x00000080, /**< FALSE */
tcCanParseHtml = 0x00000100
};
/**
@enum MarkerType
Types of markers emitted by @ref OrgKdeKSpeechInterface::marker signal.
*/
enum MarkerType
{
mtSentenceBegin = 0,
mtSentenceEnd = 1,
mtWordBegin = 2,
mtPhonemeBegin = 3,
mtCustom = 4
};
};
/**
* @class OrgKdeKSpeechInterface
* @brief D-Bus Interface to %KSpeech
*
* \#include "kspeechinterface.h"
*
* The D-Bus interface to %KSpeech.
* Applications may speak text using this class,
* or by sending D-Bus messages to application
* "org.kde.kttsd", object path "/KSpeech", interface "org.kde.KSpeech".
*
* You must generate the kspeechinterface.h file using the
* qdbusxml2cpp utility. See @ref kspeechinterface for more information.
*/
class OrgKdeKSpeechInterface : public QDBusAbstractInterface
{
public: // PROPERTIES
Q_PROPERTY(bool isSpeaking READ isSpeaking)
Q_PROPERTY(QString version READ version)
public Q_SLOTS: // METHODS
/**
Returns true if KTTSD is currently speaking.
@return True if currently speaking.
*/
bool isSpeaking() const;
/**
Returns the version number of KTTSD.
@return Version number string.
*/
QString version() const;
/**
Returns the friendly display name for the application.
@return Application display name.
If application has not provided a friendly name, the D-Bus connection name is returned.
@see setApplicationName
*/
QString applicationName();
/**
Sets a friendly display name for the application.
@param applicationName Friendly name for the application.
@see applicationName
*/
void setApplicationName(const QString &applicationName);
/**
Returns the default talker for the application.
@return Talker.
The default is "", which uses the default talker configured by user.
@see setDefaultTalker
@see @ref talkers
*/
QString defaultTalker();
/**
Sets the default talker for the application.
@param defaultTalker Default talker. Example: "en".
@see defaultTalker
@see @ref talkers
*/
void setDefaultTalker(const QString &defaultTalker);
/**
Returns the default priority for speech jobs submitted by the application.
@return Default job priority. See KSpeech::JobPriority.
@see setDefaultPriority
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
int defaultPriority();
/**
Sets the default priority for speech jobs submitted by the application.
@param defaultPriority Default job priority. See KSpeech::JobPriority.
@see defaultPriority
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
void setDefaultPriority(int defaultPriority);
/**
Returns the regular expression used to perform Sentence Boundary
Detection (SBD) for the application.
@return Sentence delimiter regular expression.
The default sentence delimiter is
@verbatim
([\\.\\?\\!\\:\\;])(\\s|$|(\\n *\\n))
@endverbatim
Note that backward slashes must be escaped.
@see setSentenceDelimiter
@see @ref sentenceparsing
*/
QString sentenceDelimiter();
/**
Sets the regular expression used to perform Sentence Boundary
Detection (SBD) for the application.
@param sentenceDelimiter Sentence delimiter regular expression.
@see sentenceDelimiter
@see @ref sentenceparsing
*/
void setSentenceDelimiter(const QString &sentenceDelimiter);
/**
Returns whether speech jobs for this application are filtered using configured
filter plugins.
@return True if filtering is on.
Filtering is on by default.
@see setFilteringOn
@see @ref filters
*/
bool filteringOn();
/**
Sets whether speech jobs for this application are filtered using configured
filter plugins.
@param filteringOn True to set filtering on.
@see filteringOn
@see @ref filters
*/
void setFilteringOn(bool filteringOn);
/**
Returns whether KTTSD will automatically attempt to configure new
talkers to meet required talker attributes.
@return True if KTTSD will autoconfigure talkers.
@see setAutoConfigureTalkersOn
@see defaultTalker
@see @ref talkers
*/
bool autoConfigureTalkersOn();
/**
Sets whether KTTSD will automatically attempt to configure new
talkers to meet required talker attributes.
@param autoConfigureTalkersOn True to enable auto configuration.
@see autoConfigureTalkersOn
@see @ref talkers
*/
void setAutoConfigureTalkersOn(bool autoConfigureTalkersOn);
/**
Returns whether application is paused.
@return True if application is paused.
@see pause
*/
bool isApplicationPaused();
/**
Returns the full path name to XSLT file used to convert HTML
markup to speakable form.
@return XSLT filename.
@see setHtmlFilterXsltFile
@see @ref filters
*/
QString htmlFilterXsltFile();
/**
Sets the full path name to an XSLT file used to convert HTML
markup to speakable form.
@param htmlFilterXsltFile XSLT filename.
@see htmlFilterXsltFile
@see @ref filters
*/
void setHtmlFilterXsltFile(const QString &htmlFilterXsltFile);
/**
Returns the full path name to XSLT file used to convert SSML
markup to a speakable form.
@return XSLT filename.
@see setSsmlFilterXsltFile
@see @ref filters
*/
QString ssmlFilterXsltFile();
/**
Sets the full path name to XSLT file used to convert SSML
markup to a speakable form.
@param ssmlFilterXsltFile XSLT filename.
@see ssmlFilterXsltFile
@see @ref filters
*/
void setSsmlFilterXsltFile(const QString &ssmlFilterXsltFile);
/**
Returns whether this is a System Manager application.
@return True if the application is a System Manager.
@see setIsSystemManager
*/
bool isSystemManager();
/**
Sets whether this is a System Manager application.
@param isSystemManager True if this is a System Manager.
System Managers are used to control and configure overall TTS output.
When True, many of the KSpeech methods alter their behavior.
@see isSystemManager
*/
void setIsSystemManager(bool isSystemManager);
/**
Creates and starts a speech job. The job is created at the application's
default job priority using the default talker.
@param text The text to be spoken.
@param options Speech options. See KSpeech::SayOptions.
@return Job Number for the new job.
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
int say(const QString &text, int options);
/**
Creates and starts a speech job from a specified file.
@param filename Full path name of the file.
@param encoding The encoding of the file. Default UTF-8.
@return Job Number for the new job.
The job is spoken using application's default talker.
@see defaultTalker
Plain text is parsed into individual sentences using the current sentence delimiter.
Call @ref setSentenceDelimiter to change the sentence delimiter prior to calling sayFile.
Call @ref getSentenceCount to retrieve the sentence count after calling sayFile.
The text may contain speech mark language, such as SMML,
provided that the speech plugin/engine support it. In this case,
sentence parsing follows the semantics of the markup language.
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
int sayFile(const QString &filename, const QString &encoding);
/**
Submits a speech job from the contents of the clipboard.
The job is spoken using application's default talker.
@return Job Number for the new job.
@see defaultTalker
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
int sayClipboard();
/**
Pauses speech jobs belonging to the application.
When called by a System Manager, pauses all jobs of all applications.
@see isApplicationPaused
*/
void pause();
/**
Resumes speech jobs belonging to the application.
When called by a System Manager, resumes all jobs of all applications.
*/
void resume();
/**
Removes the specified job. If the job is speaking, it is stopped.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@see removeAllJobs
*/
void removeJob(int jobNum);
/**
Removes all jobs belonging to the application.
When called from a System Manager, removes all jobs of all applications.
@see removeJob
*/
void removeAllJobs();
/**
Returns the number of sentences in a job.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@return Number of sentences in the job.
*/
int getSentenceCount(int jobNum);
/**
Returns the job number of the currently speaking job (any application).
@return Job Number
*/
int getCurrentJob();
/**
Returns the number of jobs belonging to the application
with the specified job priority.
@param priority Job Priority. See KSpeech::JobPriority.
@return Number of jobs.
If priority is KSpeech::jpAll, returns the number of jobs belonging
to the application (all priorities).
When called from a System Manager, returns count of all jobs of the
specified priority for all applications.
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
int getJobCount(int priority);
/**
Returns a list job numbers for the jobs belonging to the
application with the specified priority.
@param priority Job Priority. See KSpeech::JobPriority.
@return List of job numbers. Note that the numbers
are strings.
If priority is KSpeech::jpAll, returns the job numbers belonging
to the application (all priorities).
When called from a System Manager, returns job numbers of the
specified priority for all applications.
@see @ref jobsandpriorities
*/
QStringList getJobNumbers(int priority);
/**
Returns the state of a job.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@return Job state. See KSpeech::JobState.
*/
int getJobState(int jobNum);
/**
Get information about a job.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@return A QDataStream containing information about the job.
Blank if no such job.
The stream contains the following elements:
- int priority Job Type.
- int state Job state.
- QString appId D-Bus senderId of the application that requested the speech job.
- QString talker Talker code as requested by application.
- int sentenceNum Current sentence being spoken. Sentences are numbered starting at 1.
- int sentenceCount Total number of sentences in the job.
- QString applicationName Application's friendly name (if provided by app)
If the job is currently filtering, waits for that to finish before returning.
The following sample code will decode the stream:
@verbatim
QByteArray jobInfo = m_kspeech->getJobInfo(jobNum);
if (jobInfo != QByteArray()) {
QDataStream stream(&jobInfo, QIODevice::ReadOnly);
qint32 priority;
qint32 state;
QString talker;
qint32 sentenceNum;
qint32 sentenceCount;
QString applicationName;
stream >> priority;
stream >> state;
stream >> appId;
stream >> talker;
stream >> sentenceNum;
stream >> sentenceCount;
stream >> applicationName;
};
@endverbatim
*/
QByteArray getJobInfo(int jobNum);
/**
Return a sentence of a job.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@param sentenceNum Sentence Number. Sentence numbers start at 1.
@return The specified sentence in the specified job. If no such
job or sentence, returns "".
*/
QString getJobSentence(int jobNum, int sentenceNum);
/**
Return a list of full Talker Codes for configured talkers.
@return List of Talker codes.
@see @ref talkers
*/
QStringList getTalkerCodes();
/**
Given a talker, returns the Talker ID for the talker.
that will speak the job.
@param talker Talker. Example: "en".
@return Talker ID. A Talker ID is an internally-assigned
identifier for a talker.
This method is normally used only by System Managers.
*/
QString talkerToTalkerId(const QString &talker);
/**
Returns a bitarray giving the capabilities of a talker.
@param talker Talker. Example: "en".
@return A word with bits set according to the capabilities
of the talker.
@see getTalkerCapabilities2
*/
int getTalkerCapabilities1(const QString &talker);
/**
Returns a bitarray giving the capabilities of a talker.
@param talker Talker. Example: "en".
@return A word with bits set according to the capabilities
of the talker.
@see getTalkerCapabilities1
*/
int getTalkerCapabilities2(const QString &talker);
/**
Return a list of the voice codes of voices available in the synthesizer
corresponding to a talker.
@param talker Talker. Example: "synthesizer='Festival'"
@return List of voice codes.
Voice codes are synthesizer specific.
@see @ref talkers
*/
QStringList getTalkerVoices(const QString &talker);
/**
Change the talker of an already-submitted job.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@param talker Desired new talker.
@see @ref talkers
*/
void changeJobTalker(int jobNum, const QString &talker);
/**
Move a job one position down in the queue so that it is spoken later.
If the job is already speaking, it is stopped and will resume
when processing next gets to it.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
Since there is only one ScreenReaderOutput, this method is meaningless
for ScreenReaderOutput jobs.
*/
void moveJobLater(int jobNum);
/**
Advance or rewind N sentences in a job.
@param jobNum Job Number. If 0, the last job submitted by
the application.
@param n Number of sentences to advance (positive) or rewind (negative)
in the job.
@return Number of the sentence actually moved to. Sentence numbers
are numbered starting at 1.
If no such job, does nothing and returns 0.
If n is zero, returns the current sentence number of the job.
Does not affect the current speaking/not-speaking state of the job.
Since ScreenReaderOutput jobs are not split into sentences, this method
is meaningless for ScreenReaderOutput jobs.
*/
int moveRelSentence(int jobNum, int n);
/**
Display the KttsMgr program so that user can configure KTTS options.
Only one instance of KttsMgr is displayed.
*/
void showManagerDialog();
/**
Shuts down KTTSD. Do not call this!
*/
void kttsdExit();
/**
Cause KTTSD to re-read its configuration.
*/
void reinit();
/** Called by DBusAdaptor so that KTTSD knows the application that
called it.
@param appId D-Bus connection name that called %KSpeech.
*/
void setCallingAppId(const QString& appId);
Q_SIGNALS: // SIGNALS
/**
This signal is emitted when KTTSD starts.
*/
void kttsdStarted();
/**
This signal is emitted just before KTTS exits.
*/
void kttsdExiting();
/**
This signal is emitted each time the state of a job changes.
@param appId The D-Bus connection name of the application that
submitted the job.
@param jobNum Job Number.
@param state Job state. @ref KSpeech::JobState.
*/
void jobStateChanged(const QString &appId, int jobNum, int state);
/**
This signal is emitted when a marker is processed.
Currently only emits mtSentenceBegin and mtSentenceEnd.
@param appId The D-Bus connection name of the application that submitted the job.
@param jobNum Job Number of the job emitting the marker.
@param markerType The type of marker. See @ref KSpeech::MarkerType.
Currently either mtSentenceBegin or mtSentenceEnd.
@param markerData Data for the marker.
Currently, this is the sentence number of the sentence
begun or ended. Sentence numbers begin at 1.
*/
void marker(const QString &appId, int jobNum, int markerType, const QString &markerData);
};
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// DOXYGEN_SET_PROJECT_NAME = KSpeech
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