[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2025: Requesting a review for my GSoC proposal

[Mebin Thattil]

Hi Ibiam and Walter,

In light of your feedback, I have revised my proposal. I have also included
screenshots and flowcharts to elucidate my proposed approach on fine-tuning
the model.

The updated proposal is available on the GSoC portal for your review.
Please provide your feedback and let me know your thoughts.

Thankyou,
Regards

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> *"This project aims to implement an LLM (Large Language Model) chatbot to *
> *replace the pre-existing chatbot and to replace the robotic-sounding
> synthesized voice to a better*
> *more natural sounding TTS (Text To Speech) model"*
>
> To reiterate, we don't want a replacement as the activity should also work
> fine if the chatbot
> isn't used.
>
> --
>
> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM Mebin Thattil <mebin.j.thattil at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ibiam,
>> I have taken all your feedback and made appropriate changes to my
>> proposal. I would like it if you could go through it again and let me know
>> what you think.
>> Is this proposal good enough that I can take this and submit this through
>> the gsoc portal?
>> Thankyou,
>> Regards
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mebin,
>>>
>>> Some comments;
>>>
>>> You've mentioned *Enhancing UI *as a deliverable, what designs do you
>>> have in mind and can you share
>>> them in your proposal?
>>>
>>> *Not over-achieving*: what would over-achieving look like?
>>>
>>> *By the end of summer, it must be merged to the speak activity, *is
>>> stating the obvious.
>>> We do plan on merging whoever gets to work on this into the speak
>>> activity.
>>>
>>> Would also be great to avoid abbreviations like HF, while I know what it
>>> means you can spell it out,
>>> seeing as you use other abbreviations, you can spell out the meaning of
>>> any use the first time you
>>> use it, and subsequently just use the abbreviation.
>>>
>>> Implementations not Implimentations.
>>>
>>> Falling back to what already exists when there's no internet connection
>>> isn't what we want.
>>> What already exists will still exist in spite of what's new, they'll
>>> both be different and exist
>>> independently.
>>>
>>> If you were to package a light model in the speak activity, so as to
>>> reduce our dependence on network
>>> connectivity, what would that look like?
>>>
>>> Hope this helps!
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>>> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM Mebin Thattil <mebin.j.thattil at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I am writing to express my interest in participating in the Google
>>>> Summer of Code (GSoC) 25 project to develop the - *Refactoring of the
>>>> Speak activity using gen-AI*. I have drafted a high-level proposal for
>>>> your review.
>>>>
>>>> I would welcome your feedback and suggestions on my proposal. Any
>>>> feedback on how to make this proposal better would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Mebin J Thattil
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>>>
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