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? 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> 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 While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and 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 >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > -- 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 Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
