Providing a Text to Speech synthesis option in the sugar environment

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On 10/18/07, Hemant Goyal <goyal.hemant at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eben,
>
> We have been researching about the text to speech synthesis problem for the
> xo, and feel it would be a much better idea to provide the system wide text
> to speech conversion option -:
>
> Would it be a better approach if :-
>
> If we allow a user to highlight the portion of text and press "Play" Button
> that will be provided within the Sugar environment OR
> We allow a user to highlight the portion of text and provide an option to
> choose speak from the right click interface.
> Can somebody also point us to code within the sugar environment which allows
> the user to highlight and select the text, that can be piped to the eSpeak
> service.

I think it would be nice to provide a DBus interface to the service.
That way any activity could easily use it...

Marco