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Safari does text-to-speech
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Finally, a web browser that uses the text-to-speech capability via the services menu. I've been waiting for something like this so I can click on other sites, while having my Mac read me my news. Heck, I've been waiting for "services" to actually provide a useful service. A step in the right direction.
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Only years after OmniWeb. Makes Safari third after Chimera.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Hadn't noticed it before, so I tried it out.
Not bad. The interface is fairly primitive, but it could be improved.
I wonder if anyone's considered using Text-to-Speech to make an aural browser. It's easier with XHTML (since OSX has built-in XML parsing services, but I'm not sure they have a raw HTML parser available via WebCore) but doable for plain HTML as well. Perhaps even some ACSS support to allow for audio styling (it's pretty amazing what you can do with ACSS; if only there were a browser other than Emacs' web mode that supported it). This kind of thing could really take off, if someone could make it work well.
Of course, the real holy grail would be to make it voice-controllable. Then you'd have something suitable for use in cars, since you could operate it hands-free.
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Originally posted by Millennium:
Of course, the real holy grail would be to make it voice-controllable.
Again, I have to point to OmniWeb, which already has that feature.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Originally posted by Developer:
Again, I have to point to OmniWeb, which already has that feature.
OmniWeb??? Is that some sort of browser???
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I'm sickened by the ignorance running about. OmniWeb is *the* most amazing browser feature-wise. Yet nobody knows it. Everyone is preoccupied claiming that tabs are the most amazing thing ever and that, without them, they are lost and couldn't go on living.
If speed were really a make or break feature of a browser, I'd tell you to get a PC. If tabs were really a make or break feature of a browser, I'd tell you to get a life.
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Originally posted by Pepi Picklefoot:
I'm sickened by the ignorance running about. OmniWeb is *the* most amazing browser feature-wise. Yet nobody knows it. Everyone is preoccupied claiming that tabs are the most amazing thing ever and that, without them, they are lost and couldn't go on living.
If speed were really a make or break feature of a browser, I'd tell you to get a PC. If tabs were really a make or break feature of a browser, I'd tell you to get a life.
That's not really fair. Omniweb is a fine browser. But it is also stuck in a rut. It does not handle many many sites correctly, and the interface has not evolved since I first saw it on OS X. It might be a great interface, but it is taking forever to add anything new - such as tabs. If it can't move with the times, it will die. Simple as that.
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Originally posted by Developer:
Again, I have to point to OmniWeb, which already has that feature.
Can you make it speak the page? Does it obey aural CSS, or, indeed, even attempt to do things like emphasize EM tags? Can you follow a link through voice control?
OmniWeb may be voice-controllable, but that alone isn't enough.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Originally posted by Pepi Picklefoot:
I'm sickened by the ignorance running about. OmniWeb is *the* most amazing browser feature-wise. Yet nobody knows it. Everyone is preoccupied claiming that tabs are the most amazing thing ever and that, without them, they are lost and couldn't go on living.
If speed were really a make or break feature of a browser, I'd tell you to get a PC. If tabs were really a make or break feature of a browser, I'd tell you to get a life.
OmniWeb showed a lot of promise early in its introduction, but as one poster already said, it hasn't evolved much since. I am eager to see/try OmniWeb 5 when it finally gets released, however. Just as I am to see/try Safari and Chimera reach 1.0 GM.
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OS X 10.3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399 37510
Future: 13" Widescreen Powerbook, Core Duo Intel
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