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 ==== Adding speech synthesis of on-screen text for people with reduced sight or for learning to read ====
-Difficulty: medium.
+Difficulty: Medium. You'll need to be comfortable enough with C++ to be able to (quickly) understand enough of the existing engine code in order to add this functionality.
-Using the same library used in the previous task, add a similar text to speech generation for other games. The exact list of titles should be defined as soon as possible between the mentors and the student.
+Using the same library used in the previous task, it would be nice to have similar text-to-speech generation for other games. The challenge here would (hopefully) be to add the necessary interfaces for providing the text, and any needed other information (such as timing), to individual game engines. Part of your preparatory work would be working out (with our help) which engines to target.
-This task would allow people suffering of sight issues to play more games in ScummVM, but it could also be very useful to help people to learn how to read.
+This task would allow people suffering from sight issues to play more games in ScummVM, and it could also be very useful to help people who are learning to read.
+Alternatively (or additionally), you could consider adding other accessibility features.