melissa said:
>   And how well DOES your software work for the end user,
>   if he is a blind person who gets crap instead of content
>   when his screenreader is processing your files?

first, you don't have to be blind
to have use for text-to-speech.
lots of people love audio-books...

anyone who has a problem with
text-to-speech in the .html file
i uploaded should let me know...

i would certainly recommend instead
the .zml file itself for text-to-speech,
since it is the-text-and-only-the-text.

it's also worth noting that my "viewer"
program has text-to-speech capability.
so melissa, you can try it out yourself,
and let me know how it works for you.
it works just fine for me...

my program can also create an audio-file,
if you wanna send that to another player.
(at least it can on the mac side, i haven't
got that working yet for the windows side.)
but i only support .aiff files at the moment,
and those things are just _huge_.  oh well,
i guess disk-space is cheap these days...

thanks for asking, melissa...

-bowerbird

p.s.  for those people who do not have tools
that handle files with non-native line-endings,
i've uploaded a copy of alice.zml for the p.c.
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/alice01/alice01/alice01pc.zml
and one with linefeed end-of-lines for linux:
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/alice01/alice01/alice01ll.zml