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/

[jamesf4218]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

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

I tried both. Neither worked.

JTF

[TimberFloorAu]

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

[TimberFloorAu]

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.

[jamesf4218]

(Second edit)

I fixed it myself.

To make it work on IE just change:

<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>

to

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

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

[Digital Jedi]

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

[191251gs]

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.

[TheInsaneManiac]

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

[whitetigergrowl]

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

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

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by whitetigergrowl

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.

[Hornstar]

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?