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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au>wrote:

> On 30 May 2011 22:24, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Well, you are describing our solution :)
>
> Great to hear! We are excited about this :)
>
> > Read can open PDF, EPUB, DejaVu and text files. Can do text to speech
> > with word highlighting of text files, and only text to speech of EPUB
> files
> > right now.
> > The idea is add the capability to the other formats.
>
> I've tried Read 87.2 on an XO with OLPC OS, and Read 88 on Fedora 14.
> I don't get any TTS options when I open an EPUB file with them. Is
> this functionality still in development?
>


Yes. You can test a preview version in
http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/Read-89.xo
In a few days I will publish it in ASLO


>
> > This is the description of GetBooks. A deployment can use Pathagar
> > to create a book repository. In eduJam, we talked about how improve
> > the tagging of books to create catalogs, and we need to do a few changes
> in
> > the server code.
> > Nicholas and Daniel worked in code to add dynamic catalogs to GetBooks,
> > and we are trying to improve it. GetBooks and Pathagar use the OPDS
> > protocol.
>
> That's wonderful. We'd love to be able to add our own repositories.
>

You have more information about Pathagar server here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Book_Server


Gonzalo
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