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Comment on Ken Burns Effect in Dojo by Peter Parente

Peter Parente — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:13:47 +0000

Indeed. http://github.com/parente/mindtrove/blob/master/KenBurns.js

I’ll update the link in the post as soon as I figure out why WP won’t let me.

Comment on Ken Burns Effect in Dojo by ben

ben — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:04:26 +0000

Link to the KenBurns.js is busted… appears to be the wrong gist?

Comment on HTML5 audio caching by Peter Parente

Peter Parente — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:14:24 +0000

I’m interested in what we could accomplish with self-voicing apps. The screen reader has access to the DOM, but has limited knowledge of the meaning behind it. A self-voicing app can provide a considerably better user experience. Plus, relying on a screen reader limits the focus of audio web apps to people that own them. The potential usefulness of such apps goes beyond access for people with visual impairments (e.g., eyes-free, background notifications, multimodal supplements).

Comment on HTML5 audio caching by Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:20:08 +0000

Why js tts? Why not let a screen reader do this? It sounds quite interesting but I think I’ve missed the point

Comment on Outfoxing Gmail with Greasemonkey by kho

kho — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:55:44 +0000

i want to build a website that can read out its contents 4 blind people any ideaz? my e-mail z kivukih@yahoo.com or kon.technologies@gmail.com

Comment on Synthesizing Speech with pyTTS by Speech with Python « There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

Speech with Python « There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:45:35 +0000

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Comment on Synthesizing Speech with pyTTS by Peter Parente

Peter Parente — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:50:35 +0000

I’m not sure if that’s part of the info provided by SAPI. You should get reasonable results by registering listeners for utterance and word callbacks, starting a timer when you see the start of an utterance, and calculating the elapsed time each time you get a word utterance. Is that accurate enough for your needs?

You might also want to look at http://mindtrove.info/pyttsx which is meant to be a cross platform replacement for pyTTS.

Comment on Rich Audio MUDs by Ian McIntosh

Ian McIntosh — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:43:39 +0000

Audioverse is a multiplayer online game, using 3D-audio and text to describe the world. It has an optional narrator to read the text parts for blind players.

It’s free and open source. Already quite advanced. Have a look:

http://gnomecoder.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/introducing-audioverse-a-new-multiplayer-3d-sound-interactive-fiction-framework

http://gnomecoder.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/introducing-the-audioverse-world-editor

Comment on Synthesizing Speech with pyTTS by Dave

Dave — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:35:27 +0000

Is it possible to get the timing marks for each word spoken?

Comment on Python Weak References by Strong/Weak Reference « Cyker's Constellation

Strong/Weak Reference « Cyker's Constellation — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:43:53 +0000

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