Re: Text reader

One thing people want with reading support is text highlighting as it is read which requires integration with the speech engine to work really well. Power Reader seems to have many of the features people want for this area AFAIK. Steve 2008/9/3 Tomas Cerha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jonh Wendell wrot

Re: Text reader

Jonh Wendell wrote: > Actually I mean a text reader in the sense that you could choose a text > file or just type some sentence and let the computer read it for you. > Orca is a screen reader. Hello John, What else would you expect from such a program, than what you get when you open a text file

Re: Text reader

You could loo at Project Possibilities PowerReader project http://projectpossibility.org/viewProject.php?id=1 It's Java + Free-TTS but I don't know the state on *nix. Perhaps GNOME could pick it up? Steve 2008/9/3 Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Jonh: > > Most speech synthesizers com

Re: Text reader

Hi Jonh: Most speech synthesizers come with a standalone application that will take a text file as input. eSpeak, for example, provides the 'espeak' application that takes a '-f' parameter that lets you specify a file. I suspect, however, that this is pretty insufficient for most heavy spee

Re: Text reader

On Qua, 2008-09-03 at 00:15 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 2 Sep 2008, at 18:51, Jonh Wendell wrote: > > > Hi, folks. > > > > Is there any text reader integrated with GNOME? > > Yes: Orca, which has been part of GNOME since 2.16, when it replaced > gnopernicus. > >

Re: Text reader

On 2 Sep 2008, at 18:51, Jonh Wendell wrote: Hi, folks. Is there any text reader integrated with GNOME? Yes: Orca, which has been part of GNOME since 2.16, when it replaced gnopernicus. I'm asking this because frequently people come and ask for such a tool

Re: Help!

Steve, Thanks so much This site is very good! I will use it a lot!!! thank you again!! 2008/9/1 Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/9/1 Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > and there's a list on www.oatsoft.org - search for 'activity' (sorry > > it's down at the moment) > > This is the page > ht

Text reader

Hi, folks. Is there any text reader integrated with GNOME? A few ages ago, I wrote (just for learning python) a simple text reader - frontend for festival (its name is fala). I'm asking this because frequently people come and ask for such a tool. If is exists, it should be installed by default on