On 24 January 2015 at 22:21, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't we have a "Listen" button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the person in question?
Such functionality belongs in the browser, not the web page. So long as we use valid and accessible markup, the user can use a tool of their preference to have the page read to them, in a voice that suits them.
There are 37 open source text-to-speech listed here http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech
Having in the past examined several such tools in my capacity as a professional web manager, I found none which was more suited to the purpose then the scenario I describe above. Indeed, several seems to be money-making scams.