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
On an XO (OLPC/XO-AU OS), the activity loads but does not provide speech by default. To fix, run: # yum install gstreamer-plugins-espeak and restart the activity. I'm quite impressed with the result! Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: [email protected] A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
