Read Etexts does do Text to Speech, but on an XO the highlighting of the words lags behind the word spoken. The words are spoken OK. Since Read Etexts works with Plain Text files one thing you could do is copy highlighted text to the clipboard, save it as a Journal entry, and use Read Etexts to speak it.
While Speak invokes espeak directly, Read Etexts uses a gstreamer plugin for espeak that allows things like text highlighting. Every version of Sugar should include this gstreamer plugin, but since Read Etexts seems to be the only thing that uses it it often gets left out. You can install it by going to the terminal as the "root" user and typing: yum search espeak That will list everything that has anything to do with espeak. You'll see some name that suggests both espeak and gstreamer. When you have that name you can do: yum install that-name to install the plugin. Note that if you bring up Read Etexts and it has a Speech tab visible then the plugin is installed and should work. If you or anyone else wants to add speech to an Activity the free book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" at FLOSS Manuals has a chapter that explains how. This book has been translated into Spanish as well. James Simmons On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito <[email protected]> wrote: > Gonzalzo, > Thanks for your help with this. > I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read Ebooks. > What the teachers were asking for was for the ability to have text read in > Browse and Write. The use case would be highlighting text and then taking > some action which results in the text being spoken by the XO. > Let me know if you need more detail or information. > Thanks again. > Gerald > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Read Ebooks activity have text to speech capabilities, and i am adding >> this to Read activity too. >> Can you describe what you and your teachers need? >> >> Gonzalo >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all. >>> I am working with some teachers and students using XO 1.5 and version >>> 10.1.3 of the software. >>> The teachers really want to make use of a text to speech functionality. >>> I can't seem to find out how this works. >>> I would appreciate any help you can offer. >>> Thanks. >>> Gerald >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
