Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-28 Thread satya komaragiri
Hello, Based on the discussions so far on the thread and IRC, I have drafted a proposal for the Speech Recognition project titled USpeak. The draft can be found at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/USpeak . Feedback would be really nice. Regards, Satya ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 satya komaragiri wrote: I can showcase one of its potential usages by integrating speech capabilities to the 'Listen and Spell' activity where the child can spell out the word verbally. I want to let the children speak out the spelling rather than

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 satya komaragiri wrote: Games like 'Hangman' can be implemented. These are all letter based and the fun quotient and group involvement increases due to voice input. I think you have said it quite well. The benefit is almost entirely in the fun

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
Kids often start by spelling their own name, in uppercase, for example to sign a drawing or to recognize a label for belongings. Of course, the Jans of this world have an easier time than the Fernandos, but everybody tries, backwards Ns and all. In our house, Memorize was a hit with the under-5

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-23 Thread Assim Deodia
Hi Satya, Your idea is indeed very good. Its would be great to have speech as system wide another input mechanism. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:05 AM, satya komaragiri satya.komarag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a final year student from India. I wish to apply to GSoC this year by building

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-23 Thread satya komaragiri
Hi Assim, On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Assim Deodia assim.deo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Satya, Your idea is indeed very good. Its would be great to have speech as system wide another input mechanism I see that you have already compiled Julius on XO. Were you able to test it since it

[Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-22 Thread satya komaragiri
Hello, I am a final year student from India. I wish to apply to GSoC this year by building upon my current work. I had discussed the feasibility and advantages of having Speech Recognition for an OLPC with the devel list [1] in September 2008 and have been working on it since then as a part of