This weekend I made another release of Read Etexts. This one fixes the pause/resume problem. I also introduced a new toolbar for Speech, which is adapted from the toolbar of the Speak activity but is modified to use speech-dispatcher. You can select the language to use and control pitch and rate. What you can't do is change anything while speech is going on. You need to pause, make your change, then resume.
I don't plan on doing much more with this until I can get speech-dispatcher installed and working on my XO. After that I expect a whole bunch of usability issues to come up and I'll deal with them at that time. One thing I expect to have to deal with is preventing power saving from being activated while speech is in progress. I'd also like speech to pause a bit between paragraphs. Right now it reads the contents of the current page and stops. I'm considering making going to the next page automatic. Then I'm also trying to think of a good way to get it to start reading somewhere other than the top of a page. That would be good to skip over Gutenberg notices and tables of contents. I've been using the locale files from core Read up to now, so I haven't needed any translations to be done. Now that's starting to change, because I've added the Speech toolbar. I'm not sure how to proceed. If anyone wants to try this out they can download it here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read_Etexts James Simmons _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel