[Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2014] Sugar Listens Weekly Summary

[Sam Parkinson]

Hi Rodrigo!


It is nice to see 'Sugar Listens' getting developed! It sounds really cool.


As for the architecture you are suggesting I think design 1 (the central
process) would be the best way go.
Memory usage is a REALLY important thing on the xo, and a dbus based design
will make building a js (or whatever other language) api easier.


>From what I can gauge, it appears you are trying to have always on voice
recognition (please tell me if I'm wrong), which is pretty cool!
Having multiple sphinx instances all listing at the same time would not be
very good.
Having a centralized one would let you only send events only to the current
activity, and maybe default back to the system.


Your Blog> IPC message load: delay introduced by IPC calls should be
considered.
Doing some benchmarks would be cool, this sounds like a tiny issue to me!


Your Blog> Each Activity can provide its own language model...
That sounds scary!
I think, as powerful as that would be, it is really important that you
resist the temptation to shove really complex stuff onto activity
developers and force them to learn about it (sorry for being a hypocritical
there).
Make sure you have a good default (if that is possible, I don't know
anything about language models)


As for the api functions names, IMHO we should use some GTK terminology
(like connect instead of listen).


Looks like a great start to an exciting project!
Sam.


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Rodrigo Parra <rodpar07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> To sum up last week's activities for my GSoC project I wrote an article in
> my personal blog. My project is called TamTam Listens and my mentor is tch.
>
> If you want to take a look, here's the link: http://tmblr.co/ZLEL4t1Gv4jqp
>
> As stated in the article, constructive feedback about the architecture,
> the API or the article itself is more than welcome.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rodrigo Parra
>
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