Follow The Bouncing Ball

I could not find my way into the site to post the following.

I want to use pictures and short videos sandwiched between text to create stories for my Grandchildren.
I want to present it to them in a form that also serves as a reading and word recognition learning aid.
I want an audio file sequenced with “temporarily persistent text” and an old time bouncing ball moving from word to word or syllable to syllable as the text is pronounced. Temporarily persistent text defined as text that remains visible long enough that one could pause upon that word as the bouncing ball moves on; only disappearing in order to make room for more text to be bounced upon by the ball in sequence with the words being spoken.

Since my relationship with modern electronic communications is what one might expect to exist between an Orangutan and an Abacus the creation methodology must be appropriately sapiens.
I would suggest the following creation menu.

1. New Story
2. Edit Old Story
3. Insert picture or video file
4. Record text – Interfacing here with word recognition software in such a manner that the Orangutan can insert audio text and corrected text in the voice of the character recording the text. Example, I try to say “surely you jest” but because of a temporary wine induced speech impediment the voice recognition software interprets it as “Shirley you jest;” in such case I could type in the corrected word and re-record just that word; with the software seamlessly inserting it into its proper place.
5. Choose words to syllabize. --The orangutan could choose an individual word to be syllabized by entering a “-“ between syllables and the software would bounce the ball across the syllables as they are pronounced.

The ideal software would require that Grandpa Orangutan need only the following computer skill sets.

1. The ability to use a simple computer keyboard.
2. The ability to navigate the cursor within a text file.
3. The ability to navigate to video and text files.
4. The ability to plug in a microphone.
5. The ability to remember which key is used to pause and restart a file while editing or viewing.

I would send the story to my Grandchildren who would view it as a series of pictures or video clips, while listening to the story, as a bouncing ball bounces word to word or syllable to syllable in sensibly instantaneous sequence with the text being shown above or below the pictures and short video clips.

This is something I believe worth doing in its own right; but there is also no reason someone could not make a handsome profit given the size of the Grandpa and Grandma Market. I simply don't have the specialized skill set it would require to create such software; but would be willing to purchase such software if made available in such form it would be compatible with playback on a TV or computer screen, and at a price most any Grandpa or Grandma can afford.

If Grandpa and Grandma Software of such a nature was available then I would probably be more successful in writing a story my Grandchildren would enjoy; as well as making the endeavor more enjoyable for me.

I would be very pleased if in my pursuit of writing a story for my grandchildren an interest would be generated in creating reading and word recognition learning media that could be used by Grandpas and Grandmas everywhere.

I'm still trying to figure out the 300 year old children part?!

That and I'm confused as to how a bouncing ball will function inside a book or is that e book?

Perhaps another approach would be to feed an audio file to voice recognition software; where the processing speeds would make the appearance of text sensibly instantanous with the audio output.
Structure that process around the display of photographs or videos. It is after all, a big word picture book story for children 3 to 300, a reading and word recognition teaching aid, and a way for grandpa to share a story with his grandchildren.

And JE; the tone of your attitude indicates you may have been subject to too many wedjies.

That's a snide remark. Not a skidmark.

.. please keep your hands to yourself

Would, " a big word " indicate that the book is for the visually impaired or those children who are higher level functionality ?

Defining font size probably isn’t the most problematic part of constructing software that synchronizes pictures and videos to text for the purpose of teaching reading and word recognition.

The story I would choose to tell my grandchildren through such media is irrelevant.

If software was available that was designed for creating reading and word recognition teaching media then I would probably be more successful in writing a story my grandchildren would enjoy; as well as making the endeavor more enjoyable for myself.

I would be very pleased if in my pursuit of writing a story for my grandchildren an interest would be generated in creating reading and word recognition teaching media that could be used by grandpas and grandmas everywhere.

This is something I believe worth doing in its own right; but there is also no reason someone could not make a handsome profit given the size of the grandpa and grandma market. I simply don't have the specialized skill set it would require to create such softeware; but would be willing to purchase such software if made available in such form that could be easily used and at a price I could afford.

"I simply don't have the specialized skill set it would require to create such software"

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team up with someone who can -- there are various scripts and coding support that work under different applications/platforms

unfortunately precise event timing (usually) requires synchronizing things from "quite low level" control

i just checked what the web can find

https://www.google.com/search?q=msdn+speech+engine+%22event+model%22

https://www.google.com/search?q=artificial+speech+engine+%22event+model%22

https://www.google.com/search?q=introduction+to+speech+synthesis+component+event+model

Thank you for the links.