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

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

*"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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