Yagitalk

Yagitalk is a Firefox extension enabling the speaking - via speech synthesis - of the currently visited HTML page. Visit http://www.yagitalk.org/docs/guide/yagitalk.html#Quick_Start for quick-start instructions.Use Examples:* HTML Page reading for blind people* Language training (English pronunciation)* MP3 dumps of Wikipedia articles for off-line listeningDependencies:* Your browser must have Java 1.4 or higher* You must also install the yagitalk-festival.xpi (recommended) or have another version of Festival installed on your computer - see http://www.yagitalk.org/docs/guide/yagitalk.html#Dependencies.Features:* Speak HTML pages* Link notification, can follow links* MP3 dumps of HTML pages* Page status audible notification* Keyboard key-press feedback

Supported versions: Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.* Linux

Notes / Comments: Yagitalk XPI package - not bundled with Festival. Download and install one of the yagitalk-festival packages available from http://yagitalk.org/tr/yagitalk/wiki/DownloadFestivalWarning:Wrong settings of your sound system on Linux may result in Firefox freezing and/or disabled audio output for other applications when Yagitalk is running (this is not specific to Yagitalk, but also happens with Flash plugin audio output in Firefox). If you encounter this problem, try to configure your sound system to use Alsa and enable oss-emulation. Set the FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" parameter in your $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/rc or /etc/firefox/firefoxrc (on Debian/Ubuntu) to enable mixing.

Categories: Miscellaneous

Install: Yagitalk