announcing: Rita The Reader

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at sent.com
Wed Jun 2 16:19:31 EDT 2004


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That seems a good starting place. Let me give that a try.

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
> 	No, not to select one specific time. However, remember readit for
> dos? It had a variable scrolling speed that could be adjusted by the user.
> IMHO, this would be the best approach. Perhaps, to set it, you could have
> the user input the number of lines and columns on the screen (or get it
> from the terminal if possible), then read a full screen and ask them to
> press a key as soon as it is done. The timing could perhaps be set this
> way. For instance, enter speech-timing setup mode, press space to read the
> screen, then when the screen is done have the user immediately press space
> again and get the time. Only thing to make sure of would be to tell the
> user to make sure they have a full screen of data, otherwise the timing
> wouldn't be accurate.
> 	Just an idea.
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> CH> No, not yet. Should not be hard to add though. At the moment it
> CH> takes a touch of the space bar to move to the next screen, much
> CH> like less.
> CH>  It would have to be timed, and the timing would depend on the
> CH> rate of speech. Do you have some suggestions about how to select
> CH> the timing?
>
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