[Sugar-devel] etextRead activity and espeak

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

The educational team at OLENepal would like a 'karaoke-style' text 
reader above all other activities on the XO. This is primarily for 
English. Looking at the activity code, it looks like the speech code is 
there but disabled.

Would it be possible to release a version that supports espeak without 
the Speech-Dispatcher pending its implementation in Sugar? This would 
give us a chance to experiment with creating 'read-aloud' stories.

Tony



 > Thanks for your response.  I never questioned that there was still
 > interest in TTS on the XO.  What I was wondering is if there was any
 > progress made by Hemant Goyal or anyone else in getting the
 > Speech-Dispatcher software included with the Sugar distribution, if the
 > newer version of Python that resolved the power management issue was
 > included, etc.  I've sent a couple of emails to Hemant and haven't heard
 > back from him.  I was wondering if he was still working on these things,
 > or if someone else had taken over his work, etc.  He was making RPMs for
 > Fedora for installing speech-dispatcher.
 >
 > James Simmons