On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:48 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 : > > A Speech Configuration Management for Sugar > Provision of a control panel for modifying speech synthesis parameters
This could be integrated into the control panel Simon is working on, Eben? > How these parameters will be stored and retrieved when changes are made > What parameters to expose? > > Language - Perhaps this should be the sugar default? > Voice Selection - Male/Female, Child/Adult, Age > Rate > Pitch > Volume > GUI considerations > A Speech Synthesis Button > Has many states - Play/Stop (Pause?) > Reveals a control panel for modifying the speech synthesis parameters and > provides a text box for getting some text data for speech synthesis? > > What to text to send for speech synthesis? > If some text is highlighted then that text should be sent > If no text is highlighted and speech synthesis button is clicked > Send data of some active window and provide karaoke style highlighting of > text? The distinction between text selected and no-text selected is tricky here. In particular you could have a text selection in activity A, but the user could be currently using activity B. If we need to support no-text, probably we will have to implement both cases at the activity level :/ > Continue synthesis until the end of the document or stop button is pressed > Possibly a Speech Synthesis keyboard shortcut too - Should effect the Speech > Synthesis button I'm not sure I understand the use cases here, but it feels like something that could be better integrated into an activity than using a magic button. > Speak out a welcome message to the child when the XO boots up? (Hello xyz > welcome to sugar or something like that?) I think that would be annoying. Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
