[Sugar-devel] [OLPC-Philippines] [allan.reprogram for the speech-impaired or mute for Sugar...

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Gary,
Definitely,  sugar-devel mailing
list<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel>,
is the place to talk about this.
We have included a basis text-to-speech feature in Sugar, but more work is
needed in this area.
Can you explain us what does VBC?
Is a text to speech service or a interface to use text to spech or
something different?
May be you can prepare a Feature page in our wiki. This is the way usually
new features are presented
and later discussed. You can see a lot of examples here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features
and a template here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Feature_Template
We wait your comments

Gonzalo


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Mitchell Seaton <mseaton at ekindling.org>wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> A more suitable channel regarding your request for interest and Sugar dev
> is on the sugar-devel mailing list<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel>
> .
>
> For info about the development teams are here
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved#Developer
>
> The main computer-speech function in Sugar is currently run using the
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak plugin with
> Gstreamer. Also see the Activity
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Speak, and global text-to-speak
> is part of a new feature since version 0.96 (
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes).
>
> Regards,
> Mitch
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:23 AM
> Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] [allan.reprogram for the speech-impaired or
> mute for Sugar...
> To: olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org
>
>
>
>         Folks,
>
>         please excuse me for this 100-line forward from Allan Registos,
>         but if you can read thru it, it will save my dislocated shoulder
>         from even worse injury.
>
>         the nutshell of my inquiry is how-to-have my voice-by-computer
>         program added to Sugar.  I have been working on VBC for several
>         years.  I have used early versions of this program to help me
>         communicate with my friends, fellow programmers, as well as members
>         of my llibrary group.
>
>         I recently finished an early version that is for English speakers
>         who are mute or have impaired speech.  In recent years I was in
>         touch with people at laptop.org who said they were very much
>         interested in a program for the speech impaired.
>
>         VBC is done (( well, modulo documentation and finishing touches)).
>         RAther that release it to the greater world in the BSD or Linux
>         {or the Android OS}, I would prefer seeing that my program debut
>         on Sugar.
>
>         I began programming 35 years ago, earned my BSEE from Berkeley
>         in 1982, and have written several small-scale programs for the
>         Berkeley Software Distribution. All free and most with Gnu's
>         Copyleft.  VBC should help thousands of students who cannot
>         speak or speak clearly communicate with anyone.  VBC runs on
>         virtually all variant of UNIX.  As is, it works well enough
>         for a first-draft release.
>
>         If there is any interest at your end, do get in touch with me
>         at   kline at thought.org
>
>         gary kline
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Allan E. Registos" <
> allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:26:46 +0800
> From: "Allan E. Registos" <allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph>
> To: accessibility at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0
>         Thunderbird/17.0
>
> On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 09:57 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > I'll check into it, thanks. meanwhile, who should I contact at
> > laptops.org who would know how to proceed? it was the 100-billion
> > estimate of children with disabilities that kept me going. I want
> > to start with VBC on Sugar rather than sticking in the gnu- or
> > kde-accessibility realms.
> You may contact the people on this list:
> olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org
> That's all I know...
> >
> >
> >>>     Need help.
> >>>
> >>>     thanks much!
> >>>
> >>>     gary kline
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>
> >>>> From: "Gary Kline" <kline at thought.org>
> >>>> To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <accessibility at lists.laptop.org>
> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM
> >>>> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
>  Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service
> Unix
>               Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
>
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