Thank you for all the responses. I'd like to create/update a wiki page with this info. Any suggestions on where to find an existing one or where in the maze of wikis and wiki pages all different, I should create a new one?<div> <br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, James 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;">Caroline,<br> <br> The book I'm writing at Floss Manuals has a chapter on adding Text to<br> Speech to Activities. It isn't difficult at all.<br> <br> We had a college student who was interested in doing something to make<br> TTS a built in feature of Sugar. The idea we came up with was you<br> could copy text from any Activity that supported copying text to the<br> clipboard and the new code would display the text in the clipboard in<br> a window and speak it with highlighting. Nothing came of this.<br> <br> James Simmons<br> <br> <br> > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:03:17 -0500<br> <div class="im">> From: Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>><br> </div>> Subject: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine?<br> > To: iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br> > Message-ID:<br> > <<a href="mailto:b74fba2b1002171503n2ca6eed1qa04c18080074e0da@mail.gmail.com">b74fba2b1002171503n2ca6eed1qa04c18080074e0da@mail.gmail.com</a>><br> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br> <div class="im">><br> > I've noticed that many of the Special Education teachers are<br> > very innovative and interested in Sugar.<br> ><br> </div><div class="im">> I've seen a great deal of interest in Text to Speech.<br> ><br> > Students with severe enough disabilities to qualify get Kurzweil, but it<br> > costs $1000 for a one seat licence!<br> ><br> </div><div class="im">> <a href="http://www.kurzweiledu.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.kurzweiledu.com/default.aspx</a><br> ><br> > More kids could benefit from text to speech then get it and with Sugar they<br> > could afford to give it to everyone. The potential issue is we probably<br> > can't match all of Kruzweil's features and it could be a problem if the<br> > students with severe disabilities aren't getting as good a product.<br> ><br> </div><div class="im">> I'm curious if anyone has played with Wine on Sugar and how well it would<br> > work to let some kids still have access to Kurzweil even when using Sugar?<br> ><br> </div><div class="im">> Also does anyone know what they are using in Uruguay with<br> > vision impaired students?<br> ><br> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Thanks,<br> > Caroline<br> ><br> > --<br> > Caroline Meeks<br> > Solution Grove<br> > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br> ><br> > 617-500-3488 - Office<br> > 505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div></div></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>