That doesn't seem to imply it's not needed. Rather, doesn't it seem to imply the implementation should be generic, modular and bind to a variety text to voice interfaces. <div><br></div><div>I know of a blind network admin. He highlights nothing, rather festival reads everything to him (far more quickly than I can hear what is being said), and he has a 'Braille screen' (which more looks like a special keyboard than a screen). </div>
<div><br></div><div>The nice thing about the suggestion for Sword to support the IVONA text to speech engine more directly is IVONA's emphasis on Android devices, which are making in-roads in the visually impaired community, as an accessibility device.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Pondering it, perhaps this feature recommendation should be more geared to the folks who work on Andbible.<span></span><br><br><br>On Saturday, August 18, 2012, DM Smith wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Not sure it is needed. On the Mac one can highlight text and have it read in a voice of their choice. And yes it reads punctuation as that is assistive to the blind.<br>
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Linux can read text (festival?) but I've never bothered to look into it. Xiphos builds it in.<br>
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It can be done in Java, see:<br>
<a href="http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/13/vocal-java.html" target="_blank">http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/13/vocal-java.html</a><br>
<br>
In Him,<br>
DM<br>
Cent from my fone so theer mite be tipos. ;)<br>
<br>
On Aug 18, 2012, at 10:31 AM, David Haslam <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dfhmch@googlemail.com')">dfhmch@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> I've just added this idea "* Per module assignment of speech synthesis<br>
> voices, or none." in<br>
> <a href="http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList#General_UI_features" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList#General_UI_features</a><br>
> <a href="http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList#General_UI_features" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList#General_UI_features</a><br>
><br>
> My suggestion is prompted by learning about the <a href="http://www.ivona.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ivona.com/</a> IVONA<br>
> *TTS Engine* for Android, and the choice of voices available for various<br>
> languages.<br>
><br>
> Some languages already have more than one voice. e.g. Geraint or Gwyneth for<br>
> Welsh.<br>
><br>
> "Geraint and Gwyneth, first natural sounding Welsh voices are now available,<br>
> for individuals and non-commercial entities in the UK for free, as a result<br>
> of partnership between the Welsh Government, the Royal National Institute of<br>
> Blind People and IVONA. "<br>
><br>
> Arfon Jones just installed this with his Android phone, and has used it<br>
> successfully with *and-bible* to read passages from the WelBeiblNet module.<br>
> He's very pleased with it. Minor quirks are the occasional reading out of<br>
> the word "comma" when the punctuation is present.<br>
><br>
> btw. IVONA is still in Beta, and is free of charge until the end of the<br>
> Beta period.<br>
> /I'm merely using this as an example, not seeking to advertise on their<br>
> behalf./<br>
><br>
> This is something for front-end developers to consider, in as much as it<br>
> relates to the UI and the platform, as well as any preloaded TTS engine<br>
> and/or installed TTS application.<br>
><br>
> David<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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