[Sugar-devel] Global text to speech

[Tony Anderson]

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)?
>