2008/3/21 Alex Escalona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I am writing to express interest in the GSoC 2008 mentorship offered by the > One Laptop Per Child association. I am a first-year graduate student in > computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology's MSCS program. My > disciplinary interests include general topics in the broad field of > computational-linguistics, social issues in computer science, open-source > software, and programming in general. I have closely followed the > development of the OLPC's mission to make laptops available to children > around the world. In fact, I have blogged on a few opportunities on issues > related to the OLPC's work (see here and here, for posts on these topics at > http://randomatom.blogspot.com). > > In particular, I would be interested in helping further development in the > areas of speech-synthesis/TTS, especially as concerns localization of > languages and dialects, as well any general language-learning efforts at > OLPC, including eSpeak (TalknType and Speech Server), among others. I > completed numerous courses in Linguistics in my undergraduate studies in > Anthropology and Latin-American studies at the University of Chicago, > including a full year of introductory courses in semantics, phonetics, > morphology, syntax, and other general topics in linguistics. I have also > studied German, Russian, and Romani (a SE European language spoken by the > Roma people), and am a native-speaker of Spanish, my mother tongue. In > addition, I am versed in Java, and have programmed in C#, OCaml, C, C++, > SQL, MySQL. I have used SVN on several projects, including as a > collaborative version-control system. Moreover, I am currently enrolled in a > course on programming languages and translators which covers topics in > scanning, parsing, compiler design, and other topics of interest in > language-related applications. > > In conclusion, I would welcome the opportunity to speak more about my > interests in these areas, as well as to hear more about the OLPC's efforts > in general linguistic and socio-cultural applications.
Hi, please consider joining us at the next sugar meeting that will have a special focus on TTS: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004624.html Would be good if you could add to the topics in the wiki page mentioned there. Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel