#speech (6 links)
While it's frustrating to think of any hosting provider cutting services to a website because it considers the content too politically volatile or controversial, it's especially disheartening to see Amazon knuckle under to pressure from a single senator. Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon.
- Progressive enhancement: pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher — Blog & Ephemera nicolasgallagher.com · Archived on
Various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML.
- British Library - How to make a pile of walking compost sexy and the joys of drawing penguins bl.uk · Archived on
"The British Library launches the ICA Talks from the 1980s online [...] The recordings feature a kaleidoscopic range of leading cultural figures debating the social and artistic currents of the 1980s". Salman Rushdie, Steve Reich, Richard Dawkins, Alan Moore...
- Festival cstr.ed.ac.uk
Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced.
RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.
Readspeaker makes websites talk. It is easy to use and easy to implement. No backend reprogramming required and no plugins or software needed for the visitor.