Help how can I listen to sol strugling to see at moment that dosent cost a arm and leg and a tech dinosaur
Thanks in anticipation
Help how can I listen to sol strugling to see at moment that dosent cost a arm and leg and a tech dinosaur
Thanks in anticipation
Help how can I listen to sol strugling to see at moment that dosent cost a arm and leg and a tech dinosaur
Please clarify what you mean here as it doesn't make much sense to me.
I think the OP is looking for software to read SOL stories out loud - perhaps the OP is blind, or nearly blind.
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I think the OP is looking for software to read SOL stories out loud - perhaps the OP is blind, or nearly blind.
You could be right, but it's hard to parse the original message to get that. While there's a lot of text to speech software out there all I've seen and tried are very much a case of "you get what you pay for" in them as they're free and are total crap. I've never seen or tried a pay for text to speech software, so I can't give any recommendations for any.
I am not sure which country in which you live, but try asking your societies that help the blind. In the U.K it would be "Guide dogs for the blind" or the R.N.I.B. the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Hope hi helps
I never used it (I think Crumbly has), but if you have a Mac there's a text to speech.
I found something in System Preferences under Accessibility and then Spoken Content that looks like it may be what you're looking for. But I'm not sure. And, of course, it assumes you have a Mac.
Windows 10 and Android also have built in screen readers.
Win 10: Settings->Ease of Access->Narrator
Android: Settings->Accessibility->Screen Reader
And, of course, it assumes you have a Mac.
He doesn't seem to be native English so probably not from the US which makes the chance of him using a mac very slim. But if he has that might be a solution. For Windows there's the very good solution from linguatec, €49 for private use. For both Linux and Windows there's the open source solution eSpeak.
if you use firefox look at the link address and see if reader view is at the end.
if it is click it and then on the left of the page is an option for the headphones which allows you to listen to the page being read
I'm assuming that needs something to be set up by the website, and I'm assuming SOL does not do that.
I'm assuming that needs something to be set up by the website
Nope. I use Firefox as my primary browser and I tested it on a whim. Works for stories and the forum.
On the downside all the pre-loaded voices are flat and somewhat electronic sounding. No idea if you can get more voices as add ins.
I have firefox 84.0.2 and I can not get the 'reader view' when I open a SOL story. The reader view (and the headphone seems to work correctly when viewing the forums.
Are you using a firefox add-on, if so, which one is it? Thank you.
Edited to add - It works as Dominions Sons describes if I open a story directly from SOL's website. It does NOT show the reader icon if I open a SOL story that I have downloaded to my hard drive for reading later. Any suggestions?
It does not work at all for me, Firefox ESR stream. I've also tried it with the current Firefox - under Linux - with no better luck.
No add-on. FF 84.0.2(64bit) on Win 10
I frequently end up in reader view on stories by accident.
Up at the top on the URL bar for FireFox, regardless of what page, there are 4 icons on the far right side of the URL text box.
From Left to right;
[icon looks like page of text]reader view (F9)
[...]page actions
[shield with v] Save to pocket
[open(empty) star] Bookmark this page.
Has absolutely nothing to do with SOL, I can turn reader view on and off for any web page.
Up at the top on the URL bar for FireFox, regardless of what page, there are 4 icons on the far right side of the URL text box.
I use FF 84.0.2 on Linux and what I have at the right of the URL bar are 2 icons one is a star for book marking and just before that is what looks like 3 dots, click on the dots and I get a drop down box with the options of:
Bookmark, Save Page to Pocket, Pin Tab, Copy Link, Email Link, Send to Device (with an arrow for another box), Take a Screenshot.
However, I do not have any text to speech software loaded on my system, so that may be affecting how FF operates.
However, I do not have any text to speech software loaded on my system, so that may be affecting how FF operates.
Reader view is more than just text to speech. It's primary function is page de-cluttering.
The text to speech is dependent on the OS having text to speech data for the language the page is in.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages#firefox:linux:fx84
The text to speech is dependent on the OS having text to speech data for the language the page is in.
Which I apparently don't. Thanks, that explains it.
Which I apparently don't. Thanks, that explains it.
You should still be able to open reader view. The primary purpose is page decluttering, not the text to speech.
Reader view is more than just text to speech.
The page you link to shows an icon that does not show up anywhere on my menu bar at all, and it's not in the Customize list of other available options icons.
The page you link to shows an icon that does not show up anywhere on my menu bar at all, and it's not in the Customize list of other available options icons.
Have you checked what version of FF you are running. According to the support document it goes all the way back to version 68.
Have you checked what version of FF you are running. According to the support document it goes all the way back to version 68.
yes, it's 84.0.2 on my pc. I've 2 tablets with FF as well. both use the latest FF available on Android. One has that icon but it has no options with it, all it does is toggle between full page text and with margins text, and the other doesn't have the icon at all.
I'm not worried about it, either way. I just mentioned it because mine doesn't have it for some weird reason.
The page you link to shows an icon that does not show up anywhere on my menu bar at all, and it's not in the Customize list of other available options icons.
You likely do not have the extension installed. Do a Google search for Firefox text to speech. There is an extension, and once you install it that should appear.
You likely do not have the extension installed. Do a Google search for Firefox text to speech. There is an extension, and once you install it that should appear.
ahh, that would explain it. from what was previously said I thought it was a basic part of FF. I'll keep it in men for should I ever want to use it. Thanks
Edit to add: The extension mentioned by Mushroom is not what DS was talking about as it has a very different icon image.
Working here, Firefox 84 in Linux, but it's terribly robotic and not selective at all (verbalizes everything, and badly).
Never knew it was there, but it's unusable for me.
, but it's terribly robotic and not selective at all
Of course it reads the whole page, not just the story text. It's meant as a screen reader navigation aide for the visually impaired, not as a story reader.