oohoo - Text to Speech

Blocks ::: block_tts
Maintained by Patrick Thibaudeau, Nicolas Bretin
OOHOO Text to Speech is a Moodle block that reads outloud the content of a resource
Latest release:
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26 downloads
17 fans
Current versions available: 1

This block adds text to speech functionality to Moodle

It can be configured to use either the Google speech engine or the Microsoft speech engine. When added to a resource such as a page, it reads the contents.

There is also a lexicon to add pronunciations for words that it pronounces improperly. For example, it could possibly say I.V. for the text IV. It should, however, say 4. You could add in the lexicon IV = four and it willpronounce it properly.

 

A special thank you to Ryan Thomas who is the original author of this block.

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Contributors

Patrick Thibaudeau (Lead maintainer)
Nicolas Bretin: Developer
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  • Lisa Stevens
    Mon, 29 Oct 2012, 9:36 PM
    Is this block designed to work with 2.3.2? Have installed but when added to a resource page the player doesn't finish loading - you just get the greyed out player with the loading clock displayed.
    Looks great so I'm hoping you can help me to get it working smile
  • Patrick Thibaudeau
    Tue, 30 Oct 2012, 12:46 AM
    Hi Lisa,

    We have just uploaded a new version on github. This should fix the issue.

    Patrick
  • Lisa Stevens
    Tue, 30 Oct 2012, 6:59 PM
    Hi Patrick,
    I've downloaded and installed the new one from github but still have the same problem. Is there anything else I can check to try and get it working? I've tried in FireFox15 and IE9 but it's the same in both.
  • Patrick Thibaudeau
    Tue, 30 Oct 2012, 10:59 PM
    Hi Lisa,

    This is strange as we have it installed on both linux (ubuntu) and windows servers without the issue you are mentioning. Could you go to http://demo.oohoo.biz/mod/page/view.php?id=259 and try. Login as username teacher with password asdasd.
  • Lisa Stevens
    Wed, 31 Oct 2012, 6:12 PM
    It says that's an invalid log-in. Sorry to be a pain!
  • Patrick Thibaudeau
    Thu, 1 Nov 2012, 12:00 AM
    Sorry, my bad. Try teacher1 with password asdasd
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