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? > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
