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

[Walter Bender]

Hmm. I was assuming VBC was going the other direction: speech reco. We
have had a number of requests for such a feature, although I don't
know if any are written up as features anywhere. As I recall someone
(Tincho?) was looking into getting Sphinx running.

regards.

-walter

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> Definitely,  sugar-devel mailing list, 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.
>>
>> 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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>>
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>> Mitchell Seaton
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