--- "Merritt L. Perkins" mlperkins3@juno.com wrote:
- Instead of reading an Encyclopedia article from
the screen would it be nice to be able to lean back and have it read. to you by a synthetic voice? I believe that such programs already exist. Would anything need to be done to the articles so that such programs would work?.
They are available in the plenty. Ive never used them -- Dragon or other TTS software before -- maybe someone else knows a good prog.
. My computer has such a text to voice program in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 but it does not want to work for me. Perhaps it is not compatible with XP.
Its a good guess, but often there are simple audio problems at work. Do a check of all your audio settings/wires and make sure that no other audio prog is running.
- While it would not be part of Wikipedia would
free lessons in foreign languages be a good idea? Once you get started you need to get practice using the language and Encyclopedia articles might furnish such practice. Is anybody interested? Just daydreaming. Merritt L. Perkins
I like this idea -- all we have now is the "Common phrases" (in various languages ?) page. Search 'common phrases'
This could be a good starting point and blossom from there. Aslo, I understand that there are some efforts to write books on Wikibooks.org that are language instruction oriented.
Hows your wikiing going, Merritt? Do you have a login? ~S~
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