Speech program

[Puppy fam]

When I used Windows I used Firefox as my web broser. But I did use Opera sometimes because it had speech recognition/reader built in. Although Opera is compatible with Ubuntu, it does not have speech recognition or reader. I was wondering if there was another web browser or program out there that would have reading that I could use (reading as in I select text and is says: bla, bla, bla....)? I know there is a Firefox Extension but it does not work with newer versions of Firefox or Ubuntu.

Thanks,
-Puppy fam

[Swab]

I've heard that Festival is quite good. However I don't know about browser integration.

[Swab]

Actually, check out this blog posting..
http://blog.smr.co.in/cgi-bin/index.cgi/blogs/hacking/1135586734.html

Hope this helps.

[Puppy fam]

Actually, check out this blog posting..
http://blog.smr.co.in/cgi-bin/index.cgi/blogs/hacking/1135586734.html

Hope this helps.

Thank you very, very much! Hopefully I can get it up and running ok.

[Bloodfen Razormaw]

Konqueror has text to speech with Festival built in.
(Edit: In case you try this out, to be specific it requires the KDE TTS engine to function, which means installing the kttsd package.)

[RAV TUX]

When I used Windows I used Firefox as my web broser. But I did use Opera sometimes because it had speech recognition/reader built in. Although Opera is compatible with Ubuntu, it does not have speech recognition or reader. I was wondering if there was another web browser or program out there that would have reading that I could use (reading as in I select text and is says: bla, bla, bla....)? I know there is a Firefox Extension but it does not work with newer versions of Firefox or Ubuntu.

Thanks,
-Puppy famYou could use a whole operating system built with speech recognition, like:

oralux (http://oralux.org/)

are wait for Adriane Knoppix (http://efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17094)

[Puppy fam]

Thank you all for your help, but I decided to go with another program called: Fala.

Thanks again,
-Puppy fam