English-only so far? Any further plans? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 15:43, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > I just discovered this a minute ago and thought it would be of > interest. The Internet Archive lets you read a book online. They > have polished up their online book reader code to the point that it > now supports text to speech. It highlights sentences instead of > words, and has a nice, human-female-sounding voice that is much more > pleasant than what espeak gives us. > > Here are a couple of links to try out: > > http://www.archive.org/stream/BigAviationBookForBoys#page/n15/mode/2up > > http://www.archive.org/stream/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.10.08-17.20.43#page/n5/mode/2up > > To date we only have TTS with highlighting in one Activity, which is > Read Etexts. The highlighting lags behind the word spoken on an XO > laptop (although it keeps up on a more powerful machine). This makes > me wonder if sentence highlighting might be a better alternative (and > also how to decide what constitutes a sentence). The IA code doesn't > always get it right, but it does OK. > > What is neat is that it works on books like BigAviationBook that were > created by photographing page images. This makes me think we could > get TTS working in the Read Activity. > > Anyway, have a look. > > James Simmons > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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