announcing: Rita The Reader

[Jayson Smith]

Hi.
I, for one, use a Dectalk Express to read books using good old Word Perfect
5.1 with ASAP in a DOS box under Windows.  ASAP has a "Read by Screens"
feature which would work similarly to what you're thinking of.  The
difference is that, since ASAP is the actual screen reader, it is in direct
communication with the speech synthesizer and therefore, through the use of
index markers, it can tell when the speech has finished and it can move to
the next screen.  This results in a 1 to 2 second delay each time a screen
changes but it's well worth it.  Since your program is to be used in
conjunction with Speakup, it probably can't have the direct communication
with the synthesizer which would be required to make it perfect, unless Kirk
has added, or does add, some kind of a standard interface between such
programs and the synthesizer Speakup is using.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: announcing: Rita The Reader


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> This initial version does not yet support continuous reading.
> It's a worthwhile suggestion though and I may play with that idea
> a little.
>
> The problem, as I said to Jacob, is to figure out how fast to
> automatically move to a new screen. I personally find that the
> obligation to press the space bar every couple of minutes keeps
> me awake! I have sometimes dozed off while listening to a tape,
> only to come to when the story has gone off to goodness knows
> where. But if there is sufficient interest, I guess I could see
> what I could do.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stephen Clower wrote:
>
> > Hi Chuck,
> >   This sounds like a pretty interesting little program, so I'll go give
it a look a little later today. Does it support any kind of continuous
reading features or do you have to use it similarly to less?
> >
> >
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> > On 6/2/2004 at 2:01 PM Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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> > >Hi gang,
> > >
> > >I just posted a program called "Rita The Reader" which fills a
> > >niche on my system. It is a text file browser with memory. Rita
> > >remembers having read a file before, up to 100 files, providing
> > >the file has the same name, creation date, modification date, and
> > >size as it had before.  She also remembers where you left off
> > >when you last read the file and resumes reading at that point.
> > >
> > > The package is a source tarball which you will need to compile
> > >and install. Instructions are in the README file.
> > >
> > >Check out rita at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh/rita-0.1.tar.gz
> > >
> > >Hope you find Rita useful. She can get to be habit forming.
> > >
> > >Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > >- --
> > >The Moon is Full
> > >My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
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> > Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
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