On 28 May 2011 04:36, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Marilyn, > > I wrote an Activity called Read Etexts that might be of some use to > you. It can take one of the "plain text" files put out by Project > Gutenberg and read it aloud, like a Kindle. As it reads the words it > highlights the word spoken. The highlighting needs a faster computer > than an XO to keep up with the word being spoken, but it doesn't need > to be much faster. > > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035 > > James Simmons
This activity looks like it could have some real potential in our deployments. It seems like there's a lot of functionality crossover between Read Etexts, Get Internet Archive Books (your code) and Get Books (based on Get Internet Archive Books). Are there any thoughts about a merger? A reader that could pull content and vocalise the words from all of the sources supported by Get Books (plus external files) would be fantastic! Thanks, Sridhar _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
