2008/4/4 Alex Escalona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Everyone, > > I just created a page on the OLPC wiki detailing my activity proposal--"Your > voice on XO". I hope to develop this activity via GSoC 2008. A brief > abstract of my proposal follows. > > This is a proposal for the creation of a new activity for the XO that would > advance localization efforts in TTS development, as well as promote the > involvement of the local community overall. "Your voice on XO" would consist > of a long-term, community-based project to build and/or further development > of a synthetic voice for the language used locally (for more on > synthetic-voice building, see http://www.festvox.org/bsv/p710.html, and > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html). > > This activity would entail integrating the voice-building capabilities of > eSpeak, or perhaps Festival, into Sugar on the XO, as well as working to > facilitate synthetic-voice building in a classroom, or community setting > (for an overall view of how the voice building process might proceed, see > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/summer_school_2005/tutorial3/tutorial.html). > > Your feedback and comments are much appreciated!
Let's get the voices of mothers and fathers, and grandmothers and grandfathers, too. On general principles, and for reading to preliterate children. > Best, > > Alex Escalona > ("vergueishon" on OLPC wiki, IRC) > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar