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/

[Spank]

Awesome idea. Is it very sever intensive?

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Spank

Awesome idea. Is it very sever intensive?

Not at all, all text to speech converting is done by vozme.com using there free javascript code. so theres no added load to your site apart from the loading of 1 little image.

[choccyclaire]

Wow, that's so different!

[Spank]

Well that's just bloomin brill. I'm defo gonna install this and test it out.

[Brandon Sheley]

nice idea, I may add this

[Spank]

It works brilliantly, this deserves a motm nomination.

[Defkalion]

What languages does this work with?

[RvG2]

cool idea... i like it!

[BucWiLd]

very nice, im waiting for more feedback on the product b4 i install