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List:       amarok
Subject:    Re: GSoC Proposal
From:       "Ian Monroe" <ian () monroe ! nu>
Date:       2008-03-28 19:53:40
Message-ID: f680fec50803281253of787f42na019782146a108a1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Swapan <swapan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  On the other hand if you could modify the proposal to
>  something which I had been thinking would fit with
>  Amarok. The idea I had was an extension to some of the
>  work I had done with lyrics display which you can read
>  about at
>  http://amarok4kde.blogspot.com/2007/02/hindi-module-for-wiki-lyrics-script.html
>
>  Amarok currently can display meta information of
>  currently playing song such as Title, Artist & Album
>  at various places such as the context viewer,
>  screen-saver / fullsceen mode and even in presence
>  messages. What it cannot do is SAY it aloud at the
>  beginning or end of the song like the DJ does on a
>  radio station. Sometimes I would like to hear such
>  info when Amarok is playing somewhere in the backend
>  and the music is being streamed to the speakers in
>  family rooms / kitchen / garden.
>  For this to happen it would need to be able to do a
>  text-to-speech conversion of meta-data on the fly and
>  insert / mix the resulting media into the running
>  stream.
>
>  BR
>  Swapan

Nah it wouldn't have to be that complicated. A script could easily be
written with Amarok 1.4 to just pause after the end of each track, do
the TTS, and then unpause and continue.

Ian
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