[Wikipedia-l] Re: text to voice; learning languages

[Merritt L. Perkins]

1. 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.
2. 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