Text to speech is a good feature to kids, when they are learning to read, and to kids with disabilities
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Text to speech is a good feature to kids, when they are learning to read, and to kids with disabilities.
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This feature does not cover the more complex uses of text to speech, like multiple languages and word highlighting.
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In the future, we can move part of this code to sugar-toolkit to do easier to the activities use TTS and avoid duplicating code.
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The backend can be changed in the future too, if you see there are better voices for example in Festival. Doing the change in a single place will be easier than modify every activity.