From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 07:50:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD351065673 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0138FC17 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n0C7ot6u016386 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:50:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:50:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20090112075012.GA2061@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: In Brief: idea summary X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:50:22 -0000 hEy guys, Here's my idea, And since I'm publishing on the most open of the open-source list, it'll be hard for anybody to ``steal'', assuming it is _worth_ stealing. People seem to be reading less; fact. Listening more. I'm sure there are a slew onlist who still plop down before the TV after a long day of coding, and so forth. My idea isn't intended for this group. It is for those of us who do read news of the web, sci-tech journals, and even forums. Of course, if you use konq or have firefox set up to read whatever you mouse-swipe, you can listen to the TTS reader while you sort your paper, or other miscellany. If you miss something--at least with festival, you can always back up and re-listen. There are at least two problems with this model as it stands. The first is _if_ the story/article is continued on pages 2,3,4, and 5. Also, when you swipe the text to be read and there is an with a series of "vertical-bar", "vertical-bar". Or more annoying things read. When things get too far off-story, I kill the reader, stop and focus on the page, blow it up so it is easy to read, then read it. It cost major bux to have a professional reader record articles and be stored online. What I have in mind would let the tts software read the story, no "|" or "&&". Shouldn't be that difficult for online site to implement. Am I on to something?? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org First update of http://transfinite.thought.org/ab/ in seven months.