On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:01 +0100, Patrick Lauke wrote:
> > Joshua Street
> 
> > Actually, it's probably using Windows' built in text-to-speech for
> > rendering audio, so possibly not.
> 
> Actually, it's using a java text-to-speech engine, so it's cross platform
> as long as you have a working JRE (although these things can often be very
> fickle with regards to what version they want etc)

Ah, my mistake. I know Acrobat Reader's text-speech is uses Windows'
engine (at least on Windows), and there's no Linux equivalent (so I'm
without that functionality on my primary desktop). I thought I'd seen a
similar thing with some Firefox plugin in the past, but possibly not.

As an aside, I imagine this text-to-speech engine would only be a
component of Sun's JRE? Are any other JREs in use on mainstream
platforms, so far as people are aware? The other pertinent question
would be what versions introduced this functionality, as alluded to in
Patrick's message.

Apologies for my incorrect assumption!

Kind Regards,
Joshua Street

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