[Sugar-devel] Regarding the Sugar Labs Text to Speech feature.

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Good, this is a start.

We need two things to substitute espeak:
* We need svox packaged in fedora or rpmfusion
apparently is not completly free, then can't be included in fedora.
I wonder why is packaged on Debian.
Is already in the wish list for rpmusion [1]
If you are working on Ubuntu, probably is out of your confort zone :),
but many users of Sugar use the XO computers, and the distribution
installed is Fedora.
Maybe you can contact rpmfusion guys to get help moving this issue

* We need mechanisms to get the same functionality already available on
espeak,
off the top of my head:
 * get the list of languages availables
 * get the best language for the selected locale.
 * be able to pause/continue/stop a text played.

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Gonzalo

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nurendra Choudhary <
nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I implemented a code in python using svoxpico you mentioned earlier for
> text to speech.
> The code can be found here.
> https://github.com/Akirato/sugarlabs-speak-module
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Most of our users don't have connnectivity available full time
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Nurendra Choudhary <
>> nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is possible on a linux system but network connectivity is required. I
>>> thought that sugar labs had network connectivity. I will try something else.
>>>
>>> with network, the command is $curl -A "Mozilla" "
>>> http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hello+world" >
>>> audio.mp3
>>> I will try to find the source code.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It  is possible use it on a linux system?
>>>> Can be used if you are disconnected?
>>>>
>>>> Gonzalo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Nurendra Choudhary <
>>>> nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Have you thought about using the Google Text to Speech API. Its easily
>>>>> integrable and provides good sounds and also different accents.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>>>
>>>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>>
>
>


-- 
Gonzalo Odiard

SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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