Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:50:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: In Brief: idea summary Message-ID: <20090112075012.GA2061@thought.org>
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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 <IMG="foo.jpg"><http://bar.com> 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.
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