<div class="gmail_quote">[adding Sugar devel] On 16 September 2010 07:14, James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Caryl, I haven't tried this out yet but I think it's a great idea. Text to speech is underutilized in Activities, in my opinion. It isn't that difficult to add TTS to an Activity, and every kid I've ever shown my XO to has been delighted to hear it speak! James Simmons </blockquote><div> Hi James, I agree - we always have Speak open at demos. Do you have any documentation on how to get the speech engine running in other activities? I wasn't quite sure how to access (engine) & Alice when I spent a few hours a few months ago looking into a language flash cards[1] Tim [1] Such as <a href="http://remembersaurus.com/">http://remembersaurus.com/</a> </div></div>