[drupal-support] Making a Drupal website speak

Bèr Kessels berdrupal at tiscali.be
Thu Sep 1 14:48:59 UTC 2005


Most texts are ran trough t(), I guess you can use that? otherwise some of the 
theme function might help you along. A speech theme would be very cool.

Op donderdag 01 september 2005 11:12, schreef Kobus Myburgh:
> Hi,
>
> I have implemented a Drupal site with MSAgent for a project I need to do
> for my studies, as well as part of the ongoing project that I am working on
> at: http://drupal.org/node/22997.
>
> I have created a module that adds a few fields to every node that you
> create, namely:
>
> Spoken text (same as $node->body if not entered)
> Spoken title (same as $node->title if not entered)
> etc.
>
> While this works relatively well for published content, it will obviously
> not work for Drupal's system pages, e.g. the user login page or
> administration pages. Do I have to hard-code this into the Drupal modules,
> or is there a way I can extend all system modules to have customizable
> texts which can be spoken? If you need more access on the site to be able
> to create content and work on this project with me, please let me know.
>
> If you want a demo of the problem I am experiencing, please take a look at
> www.eagleeyes.co.za (currently only tested with IE6...) There will be a
> security message coming up, which you can decline. It is only to allow
> speech in the menu (will not be asked again if you put the site in your
> trusted zones in IE). The speech of the content will work regardless,
> providing you have a TTS Engine installed. This is usually installed to a
> degree with a standard Windows XP Pro install, so you shouldn't experience
> any trouble.
>
> If you look at the main page, you will see that the text is spoken to you,
> but if you click in the menu on the System -> Maintenance, you should be
> provided with an Access Denied message. When you press Control+Shift+J to
> activate speech, you will see what I mean.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kobus
Regards,
 Bèr
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