Since you're writing out the wave file, it would be nice to be able to convert existing online material to stored waves that can be retrieved at a later date to provide "podcast" like capability for listening while performing some other duty that would not allow you to be hands on. Perhaps a way to "paste in" content and store rather than have the final result be short-lived. Todd <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 10, 2008 12:11 PM, Tom Hannen <<a href="mailto:tomhannen@gmail.com">tomhannen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think it would be great to combine the features from this and TalknType (if I can get it working in Sugar)... <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TalknType" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TalknType</a> By the way, if you want to look up stuff about mouth shapes for phoneme animation, check out "Visemes" <a href="http://del.icio.us/search/?p=viseme&type=all" target="_blank">http://del.icio.us/search/?p=viseme&type=all </a> Tom <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Jan 10, 2008 8:05 PM, Joshua Minor <<a href="mailto:j@lux.vu">j@lux.vu</a>> wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > On Jan 10, 2008 1:27 AM, Joshua Minor <<a href="mailto:j@lux.vu">j@lux.vu</a>> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >>    I made a new activity called Speak.... > >> > >> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak</a> > > > > This is wonderful, because it will allow children to experiment with > > language, not just type in normal text. > > :) > > > > > In espeak, phoneme sets and orthographies can be added for any > > language. Do you support this? > > Speak calls the espeak command line tool to query the available > languages as well as to generate the audio, so any new or changed > voices in espeak will show up in Speak automatically.  It does filter > out the Mbrola voices because they don't actually produce sound.  I > plan to experiment with calling espeak via their API but I will make > sure to avoid any limitation on the set of languages. > > > Can this or the Screen Reader project be adapted to reading content, > > such as the children's picturebooks provided in the Library? (We would > > presumably need a text file to go with each document.) > > > > I think that it would be a great boost for child and adult literacy > > both if little children could sit on their parents' or grandparents > > laps and have the XO read them both a story. > > XO is the new Teddy Ruxpin :) > > I was thinking of adding a toolbar tab to allow for some sort of game/ > story/lesson modes.  It would be cool if someone could write a plugin/ > extension for a guessing game, story reader, spelling game (ala > TalknType) or something like that.  I have also considered wrapping > Speak into a reusable component so other activities could add a > talking face easily.  I'm not sure of the best way to do this. > > > In that same vein, would anybody be interested in creating a karaoke > > activity? Same-language captioning of Bollywood musicals is claimed to > > be the most effective literacy measure in India. > > That would be awesome! > > >> Also, if anyone has experience or ideas on how to get access to > >> espeak's per-phoneme timing data from python, please let me know. > >> > >> -josh > > > > Do you want to do that while running, or would a precomputed table > > meet your needs? > > I would like to get callbacks for each phoneme while the voice is > playing, so that I can shape the mouth correctly for each one.  If > done well, this could be a nice visual cue to help understand the voice. > > I would also have to rework how espeak is wired up to gstreamer. > Right now I have espeak write out a wav file and then I play that > back via the gst module.  I wasn't able to get them piped together in > a reliable way.  Specifically when I run espeak --stdout and then > attach that to a gst pipeline that starts with an fdsrc, it only > works once.  I was not able to restart or rebuild a new pipeline to > speak another sentence. > > -josh > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar</a> > </div></div>_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org"> Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> </blockquote></div>