Re: [seul-edu] looking for program that can read stories

["Paul Sutton" <zen14920@zen.co.uk>]

does emacspeak do this, http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

I will look into the site, but thought I would send in the meantime 

hope this helps

paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:10 PM
Subject: [seul-edu] looking for program that can read stories


> Has anyone heard of a program that can display a story (or other text) in
> an X window and then optionally follow along by highlighting the current
> word and actually reading it out loud?
> 
> I have been using festival (for speech synthesis) to read text.
> 
> I think it would be fun or useful to have a Perl/Tk script (or other)
> where a child (of any age) can follow along with reading a story.
> 
> It would be timed to slowly scroll through the text (for some adjustable
> reading speed).
> 
> The speech could be turned on and off.
> 
> If off, a word (or phrase) could be selected to speak just it.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Does this already exist?
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
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>