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, 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 While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and 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 > > -- 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>
