New Posting Features - 'Text to Speech' user posts

With this very easy mod you will be able to add 'Text to Speech' support to your forum posts so users may have a users post read out to them.

To install

In your 'postbit' and 'postbit_legacy' templates find:

<!-- controls -->

Add below:

<a href="javascript:void(0);" 
onclick="get_id('post_message_$post[postid]','en','fm');">
  <img src="images/misc/speech.png" alt="" width="123" height="37" border="0" 
style="margin-right:0.4em;"/></a>

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In your headinclude template find:

<script type="text/javascript" src="$stylevar[yuipath]/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>

Add above:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://vozme.com/get_text.js"></script>

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Upload the added image to your images/misc/ folder
Attachment 85889

UPDATE: To have a smaller pop up window
Upload the JS from the zip below to your forums root folder and do the following edit

In your headinclude template find:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://vozme.com/get_text.js"></script>

To

<script type="text/javascript" src="get_text.js"></script>

Thats all, A demo can be found at http://www.yourlsl.com/forums/

[yotsume]

Originally Posted by shlomot

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

100% agreed with you here! I have this installed. The "Engrish" is bad. It would be a super improvement if they would use Microsoft Anna that comes with Vista. That would be a super step up from the chick who speaks. Now thats the good. The really bad is the other languages. The Engrish is bad but the other languages are pathetically so much more worse. I think the direct website needs to hear out feedback and pleas for an upgrade in their TTS technology. This plug in is awesome.... but what its pulling in however is way behind in the TTS field.

[gwerzal]

I could never get this working but didnt bother to install.

Recently my forum has been going really really slow and i noticed at the bottom it kept tryin to load vozme.com

Anyway i tried to go there but the site was down which is why it probably slowed it down so un-installed the mod and everythings up to speed again.

Just posting to let everyone know. Not trying to diss your mod as im sure it was good.

[IcheeWaWa]

vozme.com seems to be down today...brought my forum to its knees. I had to remove this mod for the time being.

[GoTTi]

uninstalled. this just slowed my forum down so much due to the vozme server being overloaded or just slow in general.

[Megatr0n]

Is this working for anyone?

[soundbarrierpro]

Just installed and tested. Works fine.

[GSeybold]

Works great. Thank you!

[zombietom]

anyone have a working link so i can check it out.
thanks

[BlueNinjaGo]

So does this have to have the window pop up, load, and then require the user to click play?

Because by the time it pops up and loads, the user could have just read it

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by zombietom

anyone have a working link so i can check it out.
thanks

Ditto. The developer dosent seem to have it on his site, which is a bit worrying!

Would it also be possible to make this mod use a difference service?
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ << webmaster tools