Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: Gonzalzo, Thanks for your help with this. I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read Ebooks. What the teachers were asking for was for the ability to have text read in Browse and Write.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Gonzalzo, Thanks for your help with this. I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read Ebooks. What the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-23 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Gonzalzo, Do I understand you correctly that this is supposed to work by using alt-shift-s, but currently does not? Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.orgwrote: On Wed, Feb 23,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Yes On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: Gonzalzo, Do I understand you correctly that this is supposed to work by using alt-shift-s, but currently does not? Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.orgwrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-23 Thread James Simmons
Read Etexts does do Text to Speech, but on an XO the highlighting of the words lags behind the word spoken. The words are spoken OK. Since Read Etexts works with Plain Text files one thing you could do is copy highlighted text to the clipboard, save it as a Journal entry, and use Read Etexts to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread James Cameron
The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general purpose text to speech function for the rest of the Sugar user interface, but someone else may know of one. -- James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
James, Thanks. This is very helpful. Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread forster
Chat also has text to speech it might be tapping into some common library? Tony The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general purpose text to speech function for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:13:22PM +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Chat also has text to speech it might be tapping into some common library? Yes. Speak uses espeak via command line, as Chris pointed out. I found that in the source too. I didn't find anything in Chat. In 10.1.3, apart

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Read Ebooks activity have text to speech capabilities, and i am adding this to Read activity too. Can you describe what you and your teachers need? Gonzalo On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all. I am working with some teachers and students

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Gonzalzo, Thanks for your help with this. I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read Ebooks. What the teachers were asking for was for the ability to have text read in Browse and Write. The use case would be highlighting text and then taking some action which results in