[Sugar-devel] Global text to speech

[C. Scott Ananian]

Click-to-translate would be very attractive as well.
 --scott

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The OLE Nepal library on the school server includes wiktionary. However, I
> think the dictionary would have to be small enough to keep on the internal
> store of the XO.
>
> I am thinking of a scenario where a student is reading a text in a language
> other than the native language with a controlled vocabulary (e.g. <3500
> words) and could click on a word to get the definition in the native
> language. In such cases a small dictionary could be developed fairly easily.
>
> The trick is to select the word being clicked on. I suspect selecting and
> then clicking would be fairly easy to implement.
>
> Tony
>
> On 11/23/2011 11:29 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>> Do you know any free dictionary we can use?
>> The activity Words use The Internet Dictionary Project [1]
>> but is not very good.
>> GtkSpell "provides word-processor-style highlighting and replacement of
>> misspelled words in a GtkTextView widget. Right-clicking a misspelled
>> word pops up a menu of suggested replacements" [2], but the last version
>> is from 2009.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] http://www.june29.com/IDP/
>> [2] http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net
>> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Would the mechanism used to implement this be exposed in a way that
>>    it could also be used for a global dictionary (i.e. the user could
>>    click on a word or phrase and get a definition (in the same or a
>>    different language)?
>>
>
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