[sugar] next sugar meeting: text-to-speech

[Samuel Klein]

There's also growing interest in TTS from some potential Summer of Code
students, proposing a number of literacy projects.  A focused meeting for
this would be well done.

SJ

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Hemant Goyal <goyal.hemant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My apologies for not being present for this sugar meeting (my school exams
> got over today).
>
> * santhosh and HFactor present Dhvani, a text-to-speech system for
> > indian languages.
> >    o santhosh has already worked into integrating Dhvani into Speech
> > Dispatcher.
>
>
> This is great news! The packaging of speech dispatcher and dotconf is
> going on, and we'll pick up some speed now that we are free from exams. One
> of the dependencies of speech-dispathcer,DOTCONF is already approved and the
> author of the package has been sponsored by a FEDORA Packaging mentor. The
> next package to be accepted will be speech-dispatcher.
>
>
> > in today meeting we have agreed on the convenience of having a meeting
> > mainly focused on the use of text-to-speech systems in Sugar. If
> > everybody agree, will take place Tuesday March 25 at 15.00 UTC.
>
>
> Brilliant,! I've added a few points that I think I would like to discuss
> with the sugar team.
>
> I'm sending this to the Accessibility list in the hope that someone
> > will be interested in contributing in this area.
> >
> > If you are interested in attending, please add to the attendants and
> > topics in:
> >
> >
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_dev_meeting#Tuesday_March_25_2008_.28.22TTL-meeting.22.29_exceptional_time:_15.00_.28UTC.29
>
>
> Just for an update, I tried running orca with speech-dispatcher and at a
> high level it worked fine. However since we have not been able to integrate
> basic speech synthesis in sugar, I have avoided researching about this
> option just yet.
>
> Thank you for keeping a special meeting for TTS!
>
> Best,
> Hemant
>
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