On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:02, Hadley Rich wrote: > 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. That's a step on the way I didn't know about. While my friend could do that at the moment, I'm not at all sure he will be able to use the text selection much longer, and it would be well neigh impossible for somebody who is totally blind. Anyway having to select text before it can be read is, imho, a total and absolute PITA.
-- CS
