Jane Andreas wrote:
Hello Mr. Black,
I have a colleague for whom this program is an answer to prayer. She is a Special Education teacher who works with students of limited linguistic proficiency. She has been given a HumanWare Classmate Reader, which is a device that takes a txt, rtf, or xml file and reads it with text to speech while highlighting the current word it is reading on the screen. She likes the device, but the cost is 400 USD and she would really like it if the Nanonote could compete. Can the software read in more than one language? She works with students whose primary language is usually Spanish. Ideally Bard Storyteller would be as good as the HumanWare reader and better, with features the HumanWare does not have. Is the speed of reading adjustable?
I know that type of device and would like to have that functionality.
You can modify the speed but typing 'g' to get the general params screen
and using the arrow keys to go down to the Speed line, If you hit enter
while over "<<<" the speed will go up, and over ">>>" it'll go down.
(Sorry the factor is a stretch factor for duration which is what all
synthesizers do internally rather than words per minute which seems to
be the standard (even though no one know how many words per minute they
want :-). If the synthesizer is currently playing it'll only change the
duration on the next utterance.
Also, even though I myself would love to try the .ipk, I have just
painstakingly set up Debian Sid on my one Nanonote. Is there a way that the
.ipk could be installed on a Debian-mipsel system? If not that, what about a HP
Jornada 720 or 690 running Jlime?
When I tested jlime, binaries compiled on the OpenWRT (I think or was it
the reverse). But I've added a simple tar file with the binary so you
can test it, let me know if it works
http://festvox.org/bard/bard_0.5_bin_mipsel.tar.gz
Alan
Thank you very much and here's to Bard Storyteller's continued improvement!
(nice evocative name by the way)
-Jane
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: 01/21/12 02:31 PM
To: English Qi Hardware mailing list - support, developers, use cases and fun
Subject: Re: [Qi Hardware Discuss] Bard Storyteller 0.5 for Nanonote
Dear Alan,
Many thanks for the reader! I just have tried it on my NanoNote:
- the Bard icon was installed automatically. I can confirm that it works for me.
- the default setup file mentions the /usr/local/doc/alice.txt which
is not available.
- and is it possible to set custom colors?
Best Regards,
Jiri Brozovsky
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