[Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive
technology.  But having a "buttonless" mode is a good idea.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote:
> > Hi!!
> >
> > I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look
> at:
> >
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis
> >
> > Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home
> > button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text
> > in current window and presses the speech button, the selected text is
> > speaked out.
> I'm sure we should expand this simple idea to full-featured support
> of assistive technologies in sugar
>
> > The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any
> > ideas or suggestions please reply.
> I've just started orca[1] and regular gnome-terminal.. and it doesnt
> use any special buttons(in gnome-terminal) -- i think thats the way
> sugar should follow.
>
> [1] http://projects.gnome.org/orca/
>
> --
> Aleksey
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