Re: Text reader

["Steve Lee" <steve fullmeasure co uk>]

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 <William Walker sun com>:
> 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 speech
> users.  Is there something else that you have in mind?
>
> Will
>
> Jonh Wendell wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> <http://live.gnome.org/Orca>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
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