On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:17, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > 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.
Indeed, it seems a bit of a strange process to go through to hear the text,
especially, as you say, for someone who is blind.
I guess we should really be passing this information on to the KPDF
developers, their website seems to be borked at the moment though.
hads
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