[sugar] New activity: Speak

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua Minor
Hi everyone, I made a new activity called Speak. It is a talking face for the XO laptop. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the XO's speech synthesizer, espeak. You can adjust the accent, rate and pitch of the voice as well as the shape of the eyes and mouth. This is a great

Re: [sugar] New activity: Speak

2008-01-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 10, 2008 1:27 AM, Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I made a new activity called Speak. It is a talking face for the XO laptop. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the XO's speech synthesizer, espeak. You can adjust the accent, rate and pitch of the voice

Re: [sugar] New activity: Speak

2008-01-10 Thread Eben Eliason
Can this or the Screen Reader project be adapted to reading content, such as the children's picturebooks provided in the Library? (We would presumably need a text file to go with each document.) There is a project in motion which will provide a service to any sugar activity, allowing one to

Re: [sugar] New activity: Speak

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua Minor
On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 1:27 AM, Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I made a new activity called Speak http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak This is wonderful, because it will allow children to experiment with language, not

Re: [sugar] New activity: Speak

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua Minor
On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: This is pretty fantastic. I've enjoyed playing around with it. I'm glad you like it :) One simple change that I think would add a lot is some color. More specifically, the XO uses a two-tone (stroke fill) color scheme as a form of visual