On Wednesday 21 December 2005 11:54, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 14) Read the page aloud for my vision impaired friend. Although somewhat in > jest like (13) that would be a _very_ good plugin to have available. For a > developer who knows the kpdf code well it shouldn't be too difficult. > Festival [1] or Mbrola [2] are but two possible talkers.
KPDF already has this, although maybe not quite in the form you were thinking. Using the text selection tool, after you select an area the context menu gives you an option to 'Speak Text' using KDEs built in Text-to-speech, which in turn uses festival or whatever. > [1] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ > [2] http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html hads -- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
