Hi, Can someone please take a look at this mail and provide some guidance please.
Thanks! Hemant On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Hemant Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking while the packaging of speech dispatcher continues I could > finalize certain UI considerations for speech synthesis. I had a word with > Tomeu and he advised me to write all the points in a mail to the list. > > Particularly we want to focus on : > > 1. A Speech Configuration Management for Sugar > 1. Provision of a control panel for modifying speech synthesis > parameters > 2. How these parameters will be stored and retrieved when > changes are made > 3. What parameters to expose? > 1. Language - Perhaps this should be the sugar default? > 2. Voice Selection - Male/Female, Child/Adult, Age > 3. Rate > 4. Pitch > 5. Volume > 2. GUI considerations > 1. A Speech Synthesis Button > 1. Has many states - Play/Stop (Pause?) > 2. Reveals a control panel for modifying the speech > synthesis parameters and provides a text box for getting some text > data for > speech synthesis? > 2. What to text to send for speech synthesis? > 1. If some text is highlighted then that text should be > sent > 2. If no text is highlighted and speech synthesis button > is clicked > 1. Send data of some active window and provide > karaoke style highlighting of text? > 2. Continue synthesis until the end of the > document or stop button is pressed > 3. Possibly a Speech Synthesis keyboard shortcut too - > Should effect the Speech Synthesis button > 4. Speak out a welcome message to the child when the XO boots up? > (Hello xyz welcome to sugar or something like that?) > > Please share any other ideas which you think can improve the User > Experience wrt speech synthesis. > > I'd like to write the patches and wrap up the coding by the time speech > dispatcher RPMs are ready so that we can roll this feature in the XOs and > get some feedback :) > > Thanks! > -- > Hemant Goyal
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