I have always thought something like the Blue Letter Bible http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/images.pl?book=1Cr&chapter=13&verse=2&version=KJV#2 would be nice. Their interface is a little strange, at least to me, but having access to hymns and audio recordings for each verse is really nice.
On 9/18/07, Anja Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > Your suggestion sounds really great, not just for blind users, but also > for those learning English or other languages. > peter wrote: > > 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. > > > Personally, I would add an XML tag to each text passage referring to the > respective audio file. > > 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. > > > How about mbrola http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html ? > It's available for many operating systems and they also offer audio > samples on their web site, so you can decide whether the quality is good > enough for you. > The best results in text to speech synthesis could be reached by using > preformatted xml input (VoiceXML,Sable) where you can add changes in > pitch, speed, different voices etc. , but that would be another issue. > Best regards, > Anja Hofmann > > _______________________________________________ > 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
