[Sugar-devel] voice-by-computer?

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:14:55PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> We cannot speak for OLPC, but we do have most of the active Sugar
> developers on this list. Can you tell us a bit more about your
> program?
> 
> regards.
> 
> -walter


if you dig into the stuff at:

http://www.thought.org/vbc/


you'll see how VBC began in the fall of 2011.  I started and stopped the
program as things in my own life changed.  [mostly due to my shoulder
subluximation in the late 1990's.]

in berkley unix and linux groups here in seattle, in the past 10 - 15
years, I would type my thoughts on a small laptop and run the file again  
a speech program.  it does more that what I have outlined; there are a
few other things left to do.  mouse-clicking "File->Save" and so on.
What took me the longest was to write the "Options" menu stuff.  it lets
you select gender, volume, words-per-minute, and more.  Moreover, not
knowing much about the GTK+ libraries was like learning a new language!
{I'm teaching myself python to give the keyboard an optional "click")


gary



> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> >
> >         hello,
> >
> >         would OLPC be interested in my open-source GTK+ program that
> >         uses the laptop to speech what has been typed in by keyboard?
> >
> >         My program uses gtk-3.x and the C language.  it  requires
> >         espeak and vim/gvim.  other than that my program helps anyone who
> >         is speech-impaired and who can type to communicate.
> >
> >         I have been multiply  disabled since childhood by a rare disorder.
> >         Nonetheless, I graduated from Cal, Berkeley with my EECS and
> >         have earned a living as a computer engineer since the early
> >         1980s.
> >
> >         gary kline
> >
> >
> > --
> >  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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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
              Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.