Hi Gary,<div>Definitely, <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">sugar-devel mailing list</a>, is the place to talk about this.</div><div>We have included a basis text-to-speech feature in Sugar, but more work is needed in this area.</div>
<div>Can you explain us what does VBC?</div><div>Is a text to speech service or a interface to use text to spech or something different?</div><div>May be you can prepare a Feature page in our wiki. This is the way usually new features are presented</div>
<div>and later discussed. You can see a lot of examples here:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features</a></div><div>and a template here:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Feature_Template">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Feature_Template</a></div>
<div>We wait your comments</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Mitchell Seaton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mseaton@ekindling.org" target="_blank">mseaton@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Gary,<div><br></div><div>A more suitable channel regarding your request for interest and Sugar dev is on the <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">sugar-devel mailing list</a>. </div>
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<br></div><div>For info about the development teams are here <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved#Developer" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved#Developer</a> <br>
<br>The main computer-speech function in Sugar is currently run using the <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak</a> plugin with Gstreamer. Also see the Activity <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Speak" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Speak</a>, and global text-to-speak is part of a new feature since version 0.96 (<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mitch</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gary Kline</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kline@thought.org" target="_blank">kline@thought.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:23 AM<br>Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] [allan.reprogram for the speech-impaired or mute for Sugar...<br>To: <a href="mailto:olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
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Folks,<br>
<br>
please excuse me for this 100-line forward from Allan Registos,<br>
but if you can read thru it, it will save my dislocated shoulder<br>
from even worse injury.<br>
<br>
the nutshell of my inquiry is how-to-have my voice-by-computer<br>
program added to Sugar. I have been working on VBC for several<br>
years. I have used early versions of this program to help me<br>
communicate with my friends, fellow programmers, as well as members<br>
of my llibrary group.<br>
<br>
I recently finished an early version that is for English speakers<br>
who are mute or have impaired speech. In recent years I was in<br>
touch with people at <a href="http://laptop.org" target="_blank">laptop.org</a> who said they were very much<br>
interested in a program for the speech impaired.<br>
<br>
VBC is done (( well, modulo documentation and finishing touches)).<br>
RAther that release it to the greater world in the BSD or Linux<br>
{or the Android OS}, I would prefer seeing that my program debut<br>
on Sugar.<br>
<br>
I began programming 35 years ago, earned my BSEE from Berkeley<br>
in 1982, and have written several small-scale programs for the<br>
Berkeley Software Distribution. All free and most with Gnu's<br>
Copyleft. VBC should help thousands of students who cannot<br>
speak or speak clearly communicate with anyone. VBC runs on<br>
virtually all variant of UNIX. As is, it works well enough<br>
for a first-draft release.<br>
<br>
If there is any interest at your end, do get in touch with me<br>
at <a href="mailto:kline@thought.org" target="_blank">kline@thought.org</a><br>
<br>
gary kline<br>
<br>
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----- Forwarded message from "Allan E. Registos" <<a href="mailto:allan.registos@smpc.steniel.com.ph" target="_blank">allan.registos@smpc.steniel.com.ph</a>> -----<br>
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:26:46 +0800<br>
From: "Allan E. Registos" <<a href="mailto:allan.registos@smpc.steniel.com.ph" target="_blank">allan.registos@smpc.steniel.com.ph</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:accessibility@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">accessibility@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...<br>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0<br>
Thunderbird/17.0<br>
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On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 09:57 AM, Gary Kline wrote:<br>
> I'll check into it, thanks. meanwhile, who should I contact at<br>
> <a href="http://laptops.org" target="_blank">laptops.org</a> who would know how to proceed? it was the 100-billion<br>
> estimate of children with disabilities that kept me going. I want<br>
> to start with VBC on Sugar rather than sticking in the gnu- or<br>
> kde-accessibility realms.<br>
You may contact the people on this list:<br>
<a href="mailto:olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
That's all I know...<br>
><br>
><br>
>>> Need help.<br>
>>><br>
>>> thanks much!<br>
>>><br>
>>> gary kline<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> From: "Gary Kline" <<a href="mailto:kline@thought.org" target="_blank">kline@thought.org</a>><br>
>>>> To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <<a href="mailto:accessibility@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">accessibility@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM<br>
>>>> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
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