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/

[Cocko]

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

[karlm]

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

[Shelley_c]

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:

[yotsume]

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.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by yotsume

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.

[yotsume]

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.

[yotsume]

post deleted...

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!

[LeatherNeck]

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

[yotsume]

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.

[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