For the XO, it would be great if dictionaries were *not* constant databases. Many of the countries where the XO is/will be deployed have local languages for which good free electronic dictionaries very much do not exist. Moreover, even in places where the local language is digital-age, creating a schoolwide jargon file would be a great project for involving the kids.<br>
<br>I know that, if the University of Southern Denmark and the dead author's daughter ever finish giving me CC-like rights to a multilanguage Mayan dictionary, a good wiktionary-like activity would become *the* major argument for adopting the XO in Guatemala. (the dictionary is large, but antiquated - it would need to be user-extensible to be useful).<br>
<br>I am very happy that a dictionary activity exists, and I know that the programming work for a user-modifiable one is several times as much as just a static one. So I am not belittling Chris's accomplishment, just saying that tying it to a static database is not the direction I would advise.<br>
<br>Jameson<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Assim Deodia <<a href="mailto:assim.deodia@gmail.com">assim.deodia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hemant Goyal</b> <<a href="mailto:goyal.hemant@gmail.com" target="_blank">goyal.hemant@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi,<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Next steps:<br><br> * I have a "Speak" button that I'd like to hook up to espeak with the<br> appropriate accent loaded. Josh, any interest in helping to get<br> that working? Should I just wait for the speech server?</blockquote>
<div><br>The speech dispatcher API is what you can use for the speech synthesis. The python API is accessible here : <a href="http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/speechd/src/python/speechd/client.py?view=markup" target="_blank">http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/speechd/src/python/speechd/client.py?view=markup</a><br>
<br>I am still trying to get the speech dispatcher and its dependencies packaged for Fedora :\. And that is the only reason why the speech server is still not present on the XO :(. I really request an expert to look into this and help speed up the work.<br>
<br>In the long run, we plan to explore other Text to Speech engines other than eSpeak (because of voice quality issues). So coupling your app with eSpeak is not so sensible when you can directly use speech-dispatcher for all testing.<br>
<br>I have a few unapproved speech-dispatcher packages here: <a href="http://www.nsitonline.in/hemant/stuff/speechd-rpm/" target="_blank">http://www.nsitonline.in/hemant/stuff/speechd-rpm/</a><br>
<br>You'll need dotconf packages to install speech dispatcher. Perhaps Assim can help you get a *usable* dotconf pacakge.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>You can get dotconf RPM's from <br><br><a href="http://nsitonline.in/assim/stuffs/olpc/dotconf/dotconf-devel-1.0.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm" target="_blank">http://nsitonline.in/assim/stuffs/olpc/dotconf/dotconf-devel-1.0.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm</a><br>
<a href="http://nsitonline.in/assim/stuffs/olpc/dotconf/dotconf-debuginfo-1.0.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm" target="_blank">http://nsitonline.in/assim/stuffs/olpc/dotconf/dotconf-debuginfo-1.0.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm</a><br><a href="http://nsitonline.in/assim/stuffs/olpc/dotconf/dotconf-1.0.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm" target="_blank">http://nsitonline.in/assim/stuffs/olpc/dotconf/dotconf-1.0.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm</a><br>
<br>These RPM's are clean to use with only some minor bugs regarding Fedora Guidelines. We would really appreciate some help in process of review request to get both the packages (speech-dispatcher and dotconf) into OLPC build soon. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>I'd gladly hook your activity to speech dispatcher and make it self voicing _once_ speechd gets accepted in the OLPC build.<br><br>Thanks!<br>Hemant<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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<br>-- <br>Regards<br><font color="#888888">Assim
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