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Sunnz
December 23rd, 2006, 01:42 PM
I was wondering it is possible to say, highlight a paragraph in firefox, press a button, and have (Orca) do text to speech to it?

I got this setup in OSX, where I just press Alt-D and it does text to speech to any highlighted words.

kd7swh
December 28th, 2006, 06:29 AM
I don't think Orca has key bindings like that. Gnopernicus may be a good idea. Try it and see if it works for you.

benjaminhawkeslewis
December 28th, 2006, 05:09 PM
Orca works pretty badly with Firefox 2, but should do this fine with Firefox 3 (still in development). For now your best bet would be to use the Fire Vox extension with the FreeTTS speech engine:

http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

Fire Vox can in theory use Orca as a speech engine, but I found that a somewhat unreliable.

Unreadedpost
December 29th, 2006, 11:01 AM
I don't think Orca has key bindings like that. Gnopernicus may be a good idea. Try it and see if it works for you.
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Sunnz
January 10th, 2007, 07:35 PM
Orca works pretty badly with Firefox 2, but should do this fine with Firefox 3 (still in development). For now your best bet would be to use the Fire Vox extension with the FreeTTS speech engine:

http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

Fire Vox can in theory use Orca as a speech engine, but I found that a somewhat unreliable.
They have a new one called Click Speak I installed it and use it with the Java TTS, pretty cool so far!!! Thanks man!!!

doobit
January 10th, 2007, 07:36 PM
There is Festival. I don't know of anyone who is using it though to give you a review:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

jackn
February 16th, 2007, 07:25 AM
Sunnz, can you help with the install of Click, Speak?!

I've been struggling with it, but it's come to nothing.
And I'm bothering the write, Charles L. Chen. While he's been very kind about it, maybe you could save him and me some trouble by telling me what to do in Ubunut.

One thing that stumps me, I'm afraid, is that you need admin privileges when installing the Java Runtime. The Jave Runtime is provided in the context menu in the GUI, after I download the CLC4TTS jar.

But I don't know how to get admin privileges in that context, only in the console.

I think that's why it the installation stops. It tells me:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08 /jre/lib/ext/CLC4TTS_Java.jar (Permission denied).

Help?

Thank,
Jackn

Sunnz
February 16th, 2007, 04:51 PM
Hmmm this is a little confusing.

I guess you have installed the extension, right?

Have you installed Java via apt-get/synaptic?

As far as I recalled, I first run gksu in the terminate, then in the gksu window, I type it "/path/to/java -jar /home/me/CLC4TTS.jar". You'll need to fill in the exact path of your java and the jar file though.

jackn
February 17th, 2007, 05:25 AM
Thank you kindly, Sunnz.

I did finally manage to install Click, Speak and am very happy with it.

Please see how-to (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=363915&highlight=click%2C+speak) in these forums.

Jackn

friviere01
December 21st, 2009, 12:21 AM
Have a look at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=363915
How-To Install Click, Speak, a Web-page Reader (Text-to-Speech) Firefox Extension

brahmaforces
March 4th, 2010, 05:37 PM
hi all:

i tried to install the software everything went well and it installed. Java is working. I see the 3 icons in the tool bar. But on pressin g them there is no sound, ie no text to speech after all this.Please help...

JohnPitt
June 9th, 2010, 01:28 PM
I know I'm very late to reply to this thread but I hope it'll help Googlers who are searching for similar answer. So, have you guys tried Firefox add-on Text to Voice (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/91405/) ? It is very simple, light but yet powerful add-on. You may download it from AMO website using the link below:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/91405/

biloyp
June 25th, 2010, 07:47 PM
Text to Voice worked perfectly after the install. I have tried and worked on getting many of the others to work but no luck. This one was soooooo easy to install and get to work. Finally!!!! Use Text to Voice add on along with the Readability add on and selecting text is super easy, You need to select text so Text to Voice can read. Wish there was a way to adjust the speed of the reader and not to read a period as a dot, just skip it but hey at least it works.

Seems like the Text to Voice has some problems if you select too much text for it Cd and it to read. It works but not very practical for reading lots of text at once. I did download and run Vinux from its LiveCD and although the voice is really robotic but it reads your desktop, where your mouse is and webpages. Just wish the voices were better.

surfsteve
June 20th, 2011, 02:42 PM
They have a new one called Click Speak I installed it and use it with the Java TTS, pretty cool so far!!! Thanks man!!!

What version of Firefox are you currently running? I tried all day yesterday to install QuickSpeak on 11.04 and it said it was incompatible with my 4.0 version of Firefox.

I downloaded an older version of firefox but I couldn't get it to install on Ubuntu. Is there some sort of trick or are you stuck with the firefox that comes with your Ubuntu?

Is there anywhere I can download an older version of Ubuntu that will support ClickSpeak?

I am at a loss of what to do. I been using Readplease since the year 2000 which only runs on Windows XP. Why does it seem like operating systems and browsers are being built so as not to support these types of programs? Before I discovered Readplease my eyes would tire after reading 20 pages. Since Readplease I've been able to easily listen to over 200 pages a day for the past 12 years. It seems barbaric to have to give that technology up under the guise of progress.

stangw
June 23rd, 2011, 05:43 AM
No, i couldn't do that, i think it's cool if anyone could do that

startgame412
July 3rd, 2011, 08:18 PM
Just downloaded and installed FoxVox speech addon. It works but the voice is not that good. Has anyone tired it?