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2010-02-22 , 15:39
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Hi All y'all,

I'd like to use espeak to announce things in my app, but I dunno how to go about calling it from QT?

I have looked through the QT APIs and I cannot see something that allows interaction with the command line, but I imagine I'm way wrong !

Any ideas?

Shep
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2010-02-23 , 10:42
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Hi,

haven't used it by myself, but I think QProcess is what you are looking for.

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2010-02-23 , 11:11
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Hi,

haven't used it by myself, but I think QProcess is what you are looking for.

Daniel
Thanks Daniel,

I meant to update this thread today.

I tried system("espeak 'Hello shep'") and that seemed to work. I don't know how though!

Shep
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2010-02-23 , 11:13
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Thanks Daniel,

I meant to update this thread today.

I tried system("espeak 'Hello shep'") and that seemed to work. I don't know how though!

Shep
QProcess is far more advanced than the system() call.
You could make use of the various signals that QProcess generate and also fork a process etc.
If all you want to do is execute a script and wait till it finished you can use the C++ system() function and you should be fine.
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2010-02-23 , 11:29
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Originally Posted by krk969 View Post
QProcess is far more advanced than the system() call.
You could make use of the various signals that QProcess generate and also fork a process etc.
If all you want to do is execute a script and wait till it finished you can use the C++ system() function and you should be fine.
Actually - system suits my purpose in this case then

I'd love to see an example of how to call QProcess and activate ESpeak via the command line. I did try last night, but couldn't follow the docs....and when system() worked so easily I have to admit I didn't pursue it any further.

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is there a build of xsel.. i want to pipe selected text to espeak
 
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