I'd like to see an eSpeak literacy project written up -- Once we have a play button, with text highlighting, we have most of the pieces to make a great read + speak platform that can load in texts and highlight words/sentences as they are being read. Ping had a nice mental model for this a while back.
SJ On Feb 18, 2008 9:22 AM, Hemant Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It s great to see many other developers sharing the idea we have been trying > to implement right within the Sugar Environment. > > We have been working on integrating speech-synthesis into Sugar for quite > some time now. You can check out our ideas here : > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader > > We are also documenting all our ideas and requirements with respect to > Speech Synthesis in this Requirements Analysis Document here : > http://www.nsitonline.in/hemant/stuff/Speech%20Synthesis%20on%20XO%20-%20Requirements%20Analysis%20v0.3.5.pdf > > It outlines some of our immediate as well as long term goals wrt > speech-synthesis on the XO. Your ideas, comments and suggestions are > welcome. > > I'd like to update the list about our progress: > > speech-dispatcher has been selected as a speech synthesis server which will > accept all incoming speech synthesis requests from any sugar activity > (example: Talk N Type, Speak etc) > speech-dispatcher provides a very simple to use API and client specific > configuration management.So whats causing the delays? > > speech-dispatcher is not packaged as an RPM for Fedora, so at present I am > mostly making a RPM package so that it can be accepted by the Fedora > community and ultimately be dropped into the OLPC Builds. You can track the > progress here : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432259 I am not > an expert at RPM packaging and hence its taking some time at my end. I'd > welcome anyone to assist me and help speed up the process. > dotconf packages which speech-dispatcher is being packaged by my team mate > Assim. You can check its progress here : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433253 > Some immediate tasks that we plan to carry out once speech-dispatcher is > packaged and dropped into the OLPC builds are : > > Provide the "much needed" play button, with text highlight features as > discussed by Edward. > Port an AI Chatbot to the XO and hack it enough to make it speak to the > child :). > Encourage other developers to make use of speech-synthesis to make their > activities as lively and child friendly as possible :) > Explore orca and other issues to make the XO more friendly for > blind/low-vision students > @James : We envision that speech-synthesis will surely get integrated with > Read in due time. I think it would be great if maybe Gutenberg text could be > loaded right from Read only? > > > I was not planning on anything so fancy. Basically, I was frustrated > > that I had a device that would be wonderfully suited to reading > > Gutenberg etexts and no suitable program to do it with. I have written > > such an Activity and am putting the finishing touches on it. As I see > > it, the selling points of the Activity will be that it can display > > etexts one page at a time in a readable proportional font and remember > > what page you were on when you resume the activity. The child can find > > his book using the Gutenberg site, save the Zip file version to the > > Journal, rename it, resume it, and start reading. It will also be good > > sample code for new Activity developers to look at, even children, > > because it is easy to understand yet it does something that is actually > > useful. I have written another Activity which lets you browse through a > > bunch of image files stored in a Zip file, and it also would be good > > sample code for a new developer, as well as being useful. > > Warm Regards, > Hemant > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar