Merritt L. Perkins 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?. . 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.
This certainly sounds like a good idea. It should be possible with already available text-to-speech programs, but if there is anything particularly problematic about Wikipedia's current formatting that makes it difficult to use, it would be interesting to find out about it.
- 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.
This sounds like a good project fot the WikiBooks project --- producing fully multimedia textbooks to learn a foreign language.
-Mark