[Sugar-devel] Gsoc proposal: Speech Synthesis

[James Simmons]

Chirag,

I won't be able to try out your code for awhile, but I did look at it 
and noticed that while you refer to it as an "activity" it is not in 
fact packaged as an "Activity".  Even if you intend for this code to 
wind up being a part of Sugar itself, there is no reason you couldn't 
make it an Activity now, and there would be advantages to doing that.  
For one thing, it would be easier to try out.  The easier something is 
to test, the more testing is done, and the better quality of testing is 
done.  Plus the Activity could be used later by those unwilling to 
update their XO's to the latest Sugar.

Other than creating an SVG icon with Inkscape it wouldn't take much work 
to make this a real Activity.

James Simmons


> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:33:26 +0530
> From: chirag jain <chiragjain1989 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Gsoc proposal: Speech Synthesis
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> Hi,
>
> I proposed for the speech-synthesis in Gsoc 09. My proposal can be viewed at :
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis
>
> As a first phase of my development, I have implemented the speech and
> karoke style coloring of the text. A basic speech configuration
> manager has also been implemented to alter the volume, pitch and rate
> of the speech.
>
> It would be great if you can test the activity.
> Please download the speech-synthesis.zip from the link:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/speech-synthesis/downloads/list
>
> I have also included a detailed documentation of the activity.
>
> It would be great if you can send some feedbacks to me so that I can
> improve upon his activity.
>
> Regards
>