From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 22:41:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1348B10656A4 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB8B8FC0A for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (ethic.thought.org [10.47.0.230]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o06MfccG008828 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 kline@thought.org; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:41:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:41:38 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100106224136.GA8709@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Subject: OOo stuff [acroread too] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:41:42 -0000 Folks, I edit a lot of my daughter essays for punct, and to tweak a few things, &c. Normally i check my fixes my having flite read back to me after I have saved her doc files as txt. Since i installed the OOo spellchecker I have found a couple other interesting plugins or extensions. One is a text-to-speech plugin. I can't be sure if it is truly OS independent or if the Linux version would work on the FBSD version. Anybody know? There were at least a few other plugin thing that might be worth a go... . I've used acroread for years, especially when they are long and dreary essays. Does the speech part of this reader work, and if so, what is the magic? I keep getting lost in click-land! thanks for any clues, guys, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix