Read ETexts Activity Text To Speech

[James Simmons]

Edward,

I've looked at Hemant Goyal's pages on speech synthesis and it looks to 
be a great deal easier than I expected.  The karaoke highlighting looks 
doable too.  While my first priority will be getting my Activity to have 
all of the features that Read has, once I've done that I'd like to try 
adding this new feature.  The issue that I'll have with this is making 
it degrade gracefully.  Since text to speech looks like it will be 
shipped with the OS, I have to figure out a way to make this feature 
only be visible on laptops that can support it.  Maybe an extra toolbox 
tab.  I'd also have to figure out a way to test it.  I use xubuntu with 
the Sugar emulator for testing, so somehow I'd have to get Hemant's 
packages on there, probably compiling from source.

I submitted the form to this list to get a git repository, etc.  I 
haven't heard from anyone on that since.  I didn't expect instant 
turnaround on this, and there is definitely no rush, but I am wondering 
what to expect.  I'd like to have my projects hosted on the OLPC 
servers, where I feel they would be most visible.  On the other hand I 
already have a project on SourceForge and it would  be simple enough to 
set up another one.

James Simmons


Edward Cherlin wrote:

>Will it include Text-to-Speech, for the purposes we have discussed on
>this list? If so, could we get some sort of cursor or coloring effect
>to show the illiterate or semi-literate where they are in the text?
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