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muflone / gespeaker

A text to speech GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed
https://www.muflone.com/gespeaker/
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Play from clipboard #25

Open muflone opened 11 years ago

muflone commented 11 years ago

A feature to play a text in the clipboard should be implemented

muflone commented 11 years ago

This is the primary feature I use for TTS software for in Windows (mostly for pdf ebooks). I haven't seen any good implementation for it in Linux yet. I hope to see this to be able to be made automatic, I mean watch the clipboard (like 2nd Speech Center and TextAloud) and then read it without any user intervention.

muflone commented 11 years ago

I had a lot of troubles to play automatically a text when it was pasted issue #22

it wasn't easily possible for some technical issues. I hope to investigate for this particular issue which is different from the previous.

muflone commented 11 years ago

With NaturalReader, you have 2 interfaces, one like gespeaker. One called minibord. I use Minibord mostly, it stay on top of all windows. You can select text in browser, then click play icon (first button) to read the selected text.

Here is a screen shot of naturalreader Minibord

http://www.netfreehost.com/tmp/naturalreader_minibord.jpg

In ubuntu forum discussion related to text to speech, i read there is 2 clip bord in ubuntu, one for selected text. If we can play it with a minibord like natural reader, it will be great.

muflone commented 11 years ago

this is a great idea, I like it!

I'm actually working on external processes support http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belsAKmV9fo&feature=player_embedded