[sugar] Speech Synthesis Integration - User Interfaces and other Implementation Considerations
Hemant Goyal
goyal.hemant
Sun Mar 9 05:09:03 EDT 2008
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 <goyal.hemant at gmail.com>
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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