On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Mitchell Seaton <msea...@ekindling.org>wrote:
> Hi Gary, > > A more suitable channel regarding your request for interest and Sugar dev > is on the sugar-devel mailing > list<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel> > . > > For info about the development teams are here > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved#Developer > > The main computer-speech function in Sugar is currently run using the > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak plugin with > Gstreamer. Also see the Activity > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Speak, and global text-to-speak > is part of a new feature since version 0.96 ( > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes). > > Regards, > Mitch > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> > Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:23 AM > Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] [allan.reprogram for the speech-impaired or > mute for Sugar... > To: olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org > > > > Folks, > > please excuse me for this 100-line forward from Allan Registos, > but if you can read thru it, it will save my dislocated shoulder > from even worse injury. > > the nutshell of my inquiry is how-to-have my voice-by-computer > program added to Sugar. I have been working on VBC for several > years. I have used early versions of this program to help me > communicate with my friends, fellow programmers, as well as members > of my llibrary group. > > I recently finished an early version that is for English speakers > who are mute or have impaired speech. In recent years I was in > touch with people at laptop.org who said they were very much > interested in a program for the speech impaired. > > VBC is done (( well, modulo documentation and finishing touches)). > RAther that release it to the greater world in the BSD or Linux > {or the Android OS}, I would prefer seeing that my program debut > on Sugar. > > I began programming 35 years ago, earned my BSEE from Berkeley > in 1982, and have written several small-scale programs for the > Berkeley Software Distribution. All free and most with Gnu's > Copyleft. VBC should help thousands of students who cannot > speak or speak clearly communicate with anyone. VBC runs on > virtually all variant of UNIX. As is, it works well enough > for a first-draft release. > > If there is any interest at your end, do get in touch with me > at kl...@thought.org > > gary kline > > > ----- Forwarded message from "Allan E. Registos" < > allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph> ----- > > Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:26:46 +0800 > From: "Allan E. Registos" <allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph> > To: accessibil...@lists.laptop.org > Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] just a test... > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 > Thunderbird/17.0 > > On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 09:57 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'll check into it, thanks. meanwhile, who should I contact at > > laptops.org who would know how to proceed? it was the 100-billion > > estimate of children with disabilities that kept me going. I want > > to start with VBC on Sugar rather than sticking in the gnu- or > > kde-accessibility realms. > You may contact the people on this list: > olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org > That's all I know... > > > > > >>> Need help. > >>> > >>> thanks much! > >>> > >>> gary kline > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>> > >>>> From: "Gary Kline" <kl...@thought.org> > >>>> To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <accessibil...@lists.laptop.org> > >>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM > >>>> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test... > >>>> > >>>> > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. > > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-Philippines mailing list > OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines > > > > -- > Mitchell Seaton > eKindling Technology Support > msea...@ekindling.org > www.ekindling.org > -- Mitchell Seaton eKindling Technology Support msea...@ekindling.org www.ekindling.org
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