[sugar] Sugar mtg March 25 2008 (Text to Speech)

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

we dedicated a hole meeting to text to speech this week since this topic 
has been raising up so often. Note the exceptional time this week :)

When: Tuesday March 25 2008 time: 15.00 (UTC)
Where: irc.freenode.net, #olpc-meeting

Topics:

o Interfacing with Sugar
+ Unitarian interface
    # Screen readers, TTS engines, and any other text grabbing UI 
add-ons (Could that mean tty output, ssh ;)) should all be able to use 
the same interface.
    # Discuss how orca can possibly be used in the sugar environment. 
(speech-dispatcher as a speech-synth backend is supported by orca)
    # Discussion about speech-dispatcher, and how it can be used to 
interface with sugar activities.
+ Discuss some UI considerations for speech synthesis configuration 
management in Sugar Control Panel.
+ Discuss the magic button for speech synthesis.

o Support for multiple languages
+ How should the process for including a new language work
+ santhosh and HFactor present Dhvani, a text-to-speech system for 
indian languages.
    # santhosh has already worked into integrating Dhvani into Speech 
Dispatcher.
    # Dhvani will need to be packaged in Fedora.

o Performance
+ Ram use of any daemons.
+ Fundamental CPU speed limitations(real time TTS?).

o TTS as accessibility vs. TTS as a reading tutor.

o Standardized bells.


More Infos and links: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_dev_meeting#Topics
Best,
    Simon