Hi, I integrated TTS into And Bible a long time ago and, for me, it has transformed my bible study, book reading, and devotions. I initially got the idea from Troy's Bishop, which also integrates TTS.
However, TTS is probably more useful on a device which normally has earphones attached than, say, on a pc. Martin On 19 August 2012 23:26, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <k...@kleinpaste.org> wrote: > > > Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> writes: > >> TTS never struck me as something that is properly handled by the > >> application but should only be offered on the system level > > > > Bear in mind that I implemented Read Aloud back in the days of Fedora 5 > > (2006). I have no memory of there being _any_ system-level TTS support. > > The fact that I found Festival available at all was an accident. > > > > That said, how TTS is done "at the system level" is a pretty funny > > concept. That is, if Xiphos isn't doing Read Aloud directly, but the > > user is expecting it "at the system level," what shall he expect to > > happen? Every time he navigates a verse, the entire Bible chapter, as > > well as at least the commentary verse and possibly the entire commentary > > chapter, is displayed. Shall TTS read both Bible and commentary verse > > in their entirety? NETnote Ecc 1:1 is 8Kbytes of text, and takes nearly > > 12 minutes to speak. How does one, at the system level, tell the system > > to read one pane and not another, and within one pane, to read only a > > certain slice of text? I simply don't know. > > > On a mac, one highlights the text to be read and then asks (Alt-Esc) the > system to read it. The key combination ability has to be turned on in > Preferences. Most applications have a menu choice and a right click choice > to start and stop speaking, but that is an additional convenience. > > In Him, > DM > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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