Another weird idea, allow for transliteration into braille. Probably won't give the proper tactile response unless printed to a braille printer.
On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:51 PM, peter wrote: > I am at the moment trying to set up a laptop for a blind member of our > church. > > One of the wonderful things here is obviously the festival support > which > comes with gnomesword - Karl, thank you! - which gave me an idea for a > new feature - would it be possible for a module to contain sound > files - > just as some now contain images? > > I could imagine a commentary where each sound file is associated to > passage coming in really useful for a) for general use associating > already recorded sermons, lectures etc to biblical text and b) > specifically as a help for the blind. > > I would think that it should be relatively straight forward (not > being a > programmer makes all things appear straight forward :-) ) to have a > link > launch e.g. totem or whatever other pre-existing media player is > associated with a particular filetype. > > The advantages over the existing festival support is the natural voice > of a recording, the ability to make use of music etc and the > possibility to import existing taped sermon collections etc. The > disadvantage is obviously the loss of granularity and generality - > Festival can read each individual verse and could be used to read > every > type of module, irrespective of whether it is recorded or not. > > Festival is obviously not available for many languages. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
