Works great on my test computer at home with SoaS Strawberry. We'll test on school computers.<div><br></div><div>How can the Special Ed/ESL teacher take documents she currently has in say word or pdf and get them loaded into this activity so the kids can have them read to them?</div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Jim Simmons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The various emails about helping children with Dyslexia make me wonder<br> if my own Activity Read Etexts might be of any use to them. On SoaS<br> it supports text to speech with highlighting. On an XO it *can*<br> support it if the gstreamer espeak plugin is installed, but<br> unfortunately a version of that plugin that works for .82 on the XO is<br> not currently available.<br> <br> Text to Speech works fine for any book that you can read with the<br> Activity. Highlighting works, but depending on your hardware the<br> highlighted word may lag behind the word being spoken.<br> <br> Supported books include some 28,000 titles from Project Gutenberg and<br> Project Gutenberg Australia, the books in the Baen Free Library of<br> current science fiction (RTF version only) and text files like "Little<br> Brother" by Cory Doctorow and "In the Beginning Was the Command Line"<br> by Neal Stephenson.<br> <br> James Simmons<br> _______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div>