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" <[email protected]> wrote: > While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are 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 here > http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech. Some of them > support up to 50 languages. This of course would require the support of the > Wikimedia Foundation. > > I guess we could also do it with a gadget initially. Thoughts? > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
