[Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:51:44PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
> This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive
> technology.  But having a "buttonless" mode is a good idea.
yeah looks like, but assistive technologies could be a good point 
for sugar-0.86 anyway :)

chirag:
did you see StarDict http://stardict.sourceforge.net/ -- this dictionary
(in fact only shell for dictionaries) could use TTS to speech selected text --
when you selected any text and pressed special key(or mouse button)
stardict would popup window with translation and use TTS to pronounce it,
you could use this method.. or just sugarize StarDict :)

> 
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote:
> > > Hi!!
> > >
> > > I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look
> > at:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis
> > >
> > > Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home
> > > button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text
> > > in current window and presses the speech button, the selected text is
> > > speaked out.
> > I'm sure we should expand this simple idea to full-featured support
> > of assistive technologies in sugar
> >
> > > The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any
> > > ideas or suggestions please reply.
> > I've just started orca[1] and regular gnome-terminal.. and it doesnt
> > use any special buttons(in gnome-terminal) -- i think thats the way
> > sugar should follow.
> >
> > [1] http://projects.gnome.org/orca/
> >
> > --
> > Aleksey
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Aleksey