[Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are available for only a fraction of our articles. Why don't we have a Listen button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the person in question? There are 37 open source text-to-speech listed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread Pine W
Hi James, Thanks for this suggestion. May I suggest that you post this idea in IdeaLab? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab Siko, cc'd here, might be able to help advise about possible development of this proposal. Thanks, Pine On Jan 24, 2015 2:21 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
Okay have gone ahead and started a proposal here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_%22Listen%22_Button J On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes if there is no opposition to the idea I will post it to the IdeaLab. Thanks Pine :-) J On Sat,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread MZMcBride
James Heilman wrote: While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are available for only a fraction of our articles. Yep. Why don't we have a Listen button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the person in question? I think this is an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread Cristian Consonni
Il 24/Gen/2015 23:21 James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com ha scritto: While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are available for only a fraction of our articles. Why don't we have a Listen button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
Yes if there is no opposition to the idea I will post it to the IdeaLab. Thanks Pine :-) J On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James, Thanks for this suggestion. May I suggest that you post this idea in IdeaLab?