hEy guys,
Here's my idea,
And since I'm publishing on the most open of the open-source
list, it'll be hard for anybody to ``steal'', assuming it is
_worth_ stealing.
People seem to be reading less; fact. Listening more. I'm
sure there are a slew onlist who still plop down before the
TV after a long day of coding, and so forth. My idea isn't
intended for this group. It is for those of us who do read
news of the web, sci-tech journals, and even forums.
Of course, if you use konq or have firefox set up to read
whatever you mouse-swipe, you can listen to the TTS reader
while you sort your paper, or other miscellany. If you miss
something--at least with festival, you can always back up and
re-listen.
There are at least two problems with this model as it stands.
The first is _if_ the story/article is continued on pages
2,3,4, and 5. Also, when you swipe the text to be read and
there is an <IMG="foo.jpg"><http://bar.com> with a series of
"vertical-bar", "vertical-bar". Or more annoying things read.
When things get too far off-story, I kill the reader, stop
and focus on the page, blow it up so it is easy to read, then
read it.
It cost major bux to have a professional reader record
articles and be stored online. What I have in mind would let
the tts software read the story, no "|" or "&&".
Shouldn't be that difficult for online site to implement.
Am I on to something??
--
Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
First update of http://transfinite.thought.org/ab/ in seven months.
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