Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Design Team agenda item: TTS, e-speak and voices

2012-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 19 July 2012 03:11, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Investigate (and importantly, document) the process of developing new voices or improving existing voices for e-speak (on assumption that we will stick with it as our speech engine). A good pilot effort might be to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Design Team agenda item: TTS, e-speak and voices

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks Chris by putting this topic on the table. Overall, I am no sure this is a topic to the Design Team, anyway, I will add a few comments below... Well, I'd argue that a slow drift towards lock-in on a core technology

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Design Team agenda item: TTS, e-speak and voices

2012-07-19 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Chris by putting this topic on the table. Overall, I am no sure this is a topic to the Design Team, anyway, I will add a few comments below... On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Agenda item: TTS, e-speak and voices Summary: We now have

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Design Team agenda item: TTS, e-speak and voices

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Leonard
Agenda item: TTS, e-speak and voices Summary: We now have text-to-spech everywhere via e-speak, before we get too far into speech engine technology lock-in we should thoughtfully assess festival (or other options). In particular, we need to think about how we can improve upstream voices to cover