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?
Thanks, Caroline On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Caroline, > > The book I'm writing at Floss Manuals has a chapter on adding Text to > Speech to Activities. It isn't difficult at all. > > We had a college student who was interested in doing something to make > TTS a built in feature of Sugar. The idea we came up with was you > could copy text from any Activity that supported copying text to the > clipboard and the new code would display the text in the clipboard in > a window and speak it with highlighting. Nothing came of this. > > James Simmons > > > > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:03:17 -0500 > > From: Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> > > Subject: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine? > > To: iaep <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org> > > Message-ID: > > <b74fba2b1002171503n2ca6eed1qa04c18080074e...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > I've noticed that many of the Special Education teachers are > > very innovative and interested in Sugar. > > > > I've seen a great deal of interest in Text to Speech. > > > > Students with severe enough disabilities to qualify get Kurzweil, but it > > costs $1000 for a one seat licence! > > > > http://www.kurzweiledu.com/default.aspx > > > > More kids could benefit from text to speech then get it and with Sugar > they > > could afford to give it to everyone. The potential issue is we probably > > can't match all of Kruzweil's features and it could be a problem if the > > students with severe disabilities aren't getting as good a product. > > > > I'm curious if anyone has played with Wine on Sugar and how well it would > > work to let some kids still have access to Kurzweil even when using > Sugar? > > > > Also does anyone know what they are using in Uruguay with > > vision impaired students? > > > > Thanks, > > Caroline > > > > -- > > Caroline Meeks > > Solution Grove > > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > > > 617-500-3488 - Office > > 505-213-3268 - Fax > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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