[IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 & 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 28 May 2011 04:36, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marilyn,
>
> I wrote an Activity called Read Etexts that might be of some use to
> you.  It can take one of the "plain text" files put out by Project
> Gutenberg and read it aloud, like a Kindle.  As it reads the words it
> highlights the word spoken.  The highlighting needs a faster computer
> than an XO to keep up with the word being spoken, but it doesn't need
> to be much faster.
>
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035

On an XO (OLPC/XO-AU OS), the activity loads but does not provide
speech by default.

To fix, run:

  # yum install gstreamer-plugins-espeak

and restart the activity.

I'm quite impressed with the result!

Sridhar


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