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 sp

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 wrote: > 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 wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:0

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 wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Dr. Gerald

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 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 teache

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 wrote: > 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

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread forster
Thank Mikus. Thats fantastic. Turtle Art now has text to speech http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2011/02/turtle-art-text-to-speech.html Tony > Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: > > espeak "hello" --stdout | aplay > > > mikus __

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 the

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Mikus, Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: > > espeak "hello" --stdout | aplay > > > mikus > > ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://l

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: espeak "hello" --stdout | aplay mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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 wrote: > Hello all. > > I am working with some teachers and students using XO 1.5 and ver

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, apar

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Chat also has text to speech > it might be tapping into some common library? There's a remarkable aversion to looking at source code in this thread. :) Speak.activity/espeak_cmd.py: import espeak ... def speak(self, status, text): subprocess.call(["espeak", "-w", wavpat

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 th

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 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 purpose text to sp

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 h

Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Hello all. I am working with some teachers and students using XO 1.5 and version 10.1.3 of the software. The teachers really want to make use of a text to speech functionality. I can't seem to find out how this works. I would appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks. Gerald