Samuel, Read Etexts originally used speech-dispatcher and technically it still can. However, Aleksey Lim wrote a plugin for using espeak with gstreamer which works better than speech-dispatcher and does not require the configuration that speech-dispatcher needs. He also rewrote the TTS code in Read Etexts so that the Activity can use either the plugin or speech-dispatcher, whichever is installed.
The gstreamer plugin is part of Sugar on a Stick but does not currently ship with Fedora or any other distro that I know of. It is possible to install speech-dispatcher on an XO running .82 but IMHO it's more trouble than the results are worth. The highlighting doesn't keep up with the words spoken very well. The gstreamer plugin does this *much* better. James Simmons > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:04:53 -0400 > From: Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bookreader] Text to Speech readers for XO > To: Mike McCabe <mcc...@archive.org>, Gregor Kervina > <gregor.kerv...@gmail.com> > Cc: iaep <i...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar Devel > <sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org>, OLPC Bookreader list > <bookrea...@lists.laptop.org> > Message-ID: > <5396c0d10910291704s7327b26bldb6a6c4c774b0...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Bumping up this recent thread on the bookreader list about text-to-speech. > Mike and Gregor, in case you haven't seen what's currently possible: > > I believe James S's Read Etexts uses speech-dispatcher to read selected > text. Aleksey and others may have done further work with espeak... I've > included some old threads from the Sugar list this past spring below. > > SJ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
