Hi Satya, Your idea is indeed very good. Its would be great to have speech as system wide another input mechanism. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:05 AM, satya komaragiri <<a href="mailto:satya.komaragiri@gmail.com" target="_blank">satya.komaragiri@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 the Sarai Fellowship. My progress on that project can be tracked on its wiki page [2]. I am also working on a dictation activity under it though it might take some time as I am currently gathering the speech corpus spoken by children. </blockquote><div> I see that you have already compiled Julius on XO. Were you able to test it since it only support Japanese? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> This summer, I would like to implement a generic speech library that could be used by any activity so that children can interact with Sugar using voice rather than typing. I spoke to Mr. Assim Deodia(cc'ed in this mail) who developed an activity called 'Listen and Spell' in GSoC last year and is interested in this idea. 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 type it out. As the alphabet of any language is limited (26 in the case of English, extension to any language would just mean getting a few people to read out the alphabet of that language). </blockquote><div> What you can do is (As Sean DALY suggested) to have a specific key pressed while speaking this i guess will greatly improve the efficiency of the engine. Starting out with the recognition of just 26 letters that with too boundaries marked would not be of much load for XO and it will enhance the activity greatly. Some basic commands like close, open <activity name> etc can also be implemented. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Having a generic library will make system-wide integration easier by abstracting the interactions with the speech engine via DBUS etc. All the activities can use the speech capability as they see fit (spoken commands to control the activity is the most straightforward application that strikes me). It would be really nice if the community could provide us with some feedback on this proposal. :) </blockquote><div>I suggest you draft your proposal on wiki page and put it under this category <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:2009_GSoC_applications" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:2009_GSoC_applications</a>. Your application is great. Hoping to see it in this year GSoc. Best of Luck. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Regards Satya Komaragiri [1] Dicsussion on the devel list: <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/019136.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/019136.html</a> [2] Speech recognition project page: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_to_Text" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_to_Text</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards Assim Deodia | <a href="http://nsitonline.in/assim" target="_blank">http://nsitonline.in/assim</a> Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology