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(a)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(a)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become out of date and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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The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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