Brilliant. Nominated for MOTM.

The new Javascript (popup) update, works a treat

Good Work !

Noticed, its not very Internet Explorer friendly.

Perhaps theres a FIX

It opens the popup, then closes main window, then we get a warning... any suggestions please

Getting the same problem with IE - the error message and the page goes to not found. So doesn't really work. Can this be fixed?

I swear by FF but some users still use IE.

Id imagine its just some js conflict.

Will have a look at the code, and see if I can fix it myself :) Will post back

I'm using it on IE and I'm not getting any problems.

I swear by FF but some users still use IE.

Id imagine its just some js conflict.

Will have a look at the code, and see if I can fix it myself :) Will post back

this is an awesome idea. Nice work mate!

I'm using IE 7 and it doesn't work.

Ok that's appreciated.

Which version are you using? The one with local javascript or the one with the remote?

I tried both. Neither worked.

JTF

We are using the Local version DJ, because of the window size.

I have noticed additional lag, and I suspect this is the IE issue.

I will be reverting today.

Ste

1. reverted to remote js version
2. windows unable to open destination window, but the pop up appears behind main forum page, close the alert box, and main forum page blanks out.

3. page lag, had disappeared since going from local to remote

4. I have done some more images for buttons ( please dont ask for any ) I havent got the time to do individual requests.

(Second edit)

I fixed it myself.

To make it work on IE just change:

to

You should also make sure you wait until the page has fully downloaded before clicking the button.

Oh, I see. I bet your forum was prepending javascript:void(0); with your forum address.

Hello first thank you for this modification! :up:
I run a forum with people who have bad eyes to read.
Is there also a German translation ?:)
Thank you and friendly greetings.

I would use it, but I used voz before and they are down a lot.

Marked as installed but waiting for a proper IE fix before fully installing.

Many also use VBSEO. Would this have any conflicts with that?

It's probably not an IE problem, but vB problem. Sometime vBulletin puts your board URL in front of Javascript links. Just change javascript:void(0); to # and there shouldn't be a problem.

This is really cool!

I would love to host a text to speech on my dedicated server. does anyone know of any software that would allow me to run something like this from my server?

Edit: I found this http://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/texttospeechserver.php
If I got that, would that work?

How can I add this to vbadvanced Dynamics?

Could any one help please?

Still waiting for help...

Hi C.Birch,

This is a great add-on for any forum which wants to offer "accessibility" to visually impaired people.

I have done some minor improvements to the code you have posted to make it more usable with different themes/skins:

Instead of:
Use this:
There are 2 differences here:
1. The path defined is for the SKIN IN USE, so that the speech.png button would have to be placed in the themes "buttons" folder: images/theme_name/butons/ this will allow users to customize the button according to their theme designs.

2. There are no width or height attributes used in the code since this is very restrictive code and button sizes can differ according to forum 'looks'

Hope you find it beneficial,
Thanks once again for this cool mod,
Aku

Unless someone is running vBa Dynamics, we wouldn't know what to tell you.

I like it.. great idea.. though it doesn't work for me due to unsupported language..

How about making it for certain forums only? like I have some English forums and would love to add this to them..

I'll pass on this great idea for now

Thanks


EDIT: since I use different styles for the english/french forums I guess I could use this :) I just thought of that.. I will give it a try

Well, i can send you the module to use it to make the hack....

What o you think?

very well done. Way to think outside the box!

dont know what i have done wrong

i am not new to installing comlicated mods so this should have been easy for me.

I have made all the edits and done everything but nothing is showing up on my forum.

I have just installed a new style and i made the edits to the new style as that is what i will be using.

Do i have to do it with any other styles as well to make it work?

The site is http://www.cashloopholes.co.uk if that helps and everything is set up so it should be working.

You installed it just fine, you just havn't uploaded the button image to right place(s).

Great idea,

We have a few blind people on our forum and they have screen reader software already, but this gives the option to anyone.

Does anyone know if there is software for reading the image authentication as that is a stumbling block for blind people as their software can't read the images for obvious reasons.

There must be an alternative to image verificartion that uses sound?? (I hope).

Grant

How would this work in german language, any other servers that is supportet
with this add-on, maybe substituted templates manually ?

Excellent idea, the demo was good too. I might just look-in to this ...

Excellent Idea, I thought i would give this one a try and it seems to work prity good (some of the wording is hard to understand) though for people who find it hard to read this hack is a valuable asset to anyones site. That alone gets my vote for motm. :up:

This looks great and I would like to add it to my site but I have a couple of question:

1. My forum and all posts are viewable to members only. Will this mod be able to work in my case?
2. If a member types in English are we saying that by clicking the Spanish button it will translate their English text into another language and speak it?

I would install this but I need these questions answered first.

1. It's reading posts in my Staff Only forums.
2 I don't think the tool does any translating. It just reads the content with inflections and pronunciations of the selected language.

Installed and works perfect!

My next question: How can I get this to work for vbBlogs that I have installed? I'd like to add this to the blog's initial post and the comments.

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I have some other IE7 error that is preventing some users from using my vb3.7.3x forum. Other IE users have no problem using my forum. I reinstalled a laptop and the IE7 that is on this with Vista has errors while posting new threads or replies.

I deleted my post because its not a problem I am having with this mod but with something happing in IE7.

Now I have to go and reinstall this mod and try and solve the IE7 problem for those crazy people who use IE7!

working perfectly on ie7 and firefox with vista, great mod, thanks :)

Yea I had a conflict with another mod that resizes inline images. I will be reinstalling this right now since I fixed my other problem.

Thank you so much for sharing this important capabilities with us. However, actual testing of the text-to-speech performance on the developer's site shows a somewhat premature digital technology.

Will install as soon as the baby will grow to become a toddler :)