Okay have gone ahead and started a proposal here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_%22Listen%22_Button
J
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Yes if there is no opposition to the idea I will post it to the IdeaLab. Thanks Pine :-)
J
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi James,
Thanks for this suggestion. May I suggest that you post this idea in IdeaLab? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab
Siko, cc'd here, might be able to help advise about possible development of this proposal.
Thanks,
Pine On Jan 24, 2015 2:21 PM, "James Heilman" jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are available for only a fraction of our articles.
Why don't we have a "Listen" button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the person in question?
There are 37 open source text-to-speech listed here http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech. Some of them support up to 50 languages. This of course would require the support of the Wikimedia Foundation.
I guess we could also do it with a gadget initially. Thoughts?
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