[Sugar-devel] GSoC proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

I like the idea.  I would suggest that for (2), when the word is pronounced
it should be sounded out first using the grapheme-phoneme correspondences
for the language.  Preferably highlight the graphemes as they are spoken.
Thus "bb ah ll - ball", in turn highlighting b, a, ll.  This helps the child
improve their decoding skills.  C.f.
http://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/<goog_1239290206416>

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:10 AM, chirag jain <chiragjain1989 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Keyboard Speaker
>
> As I proposed in my proposal about the keyboard speaker, I want to
> make it more elaborate and wants you to comment.
>
> I am thinking it to implement in two ways....
>
> 1.  A single key speaker.
>
> In this option, the keyboard speaker will simply speak the keys as a
> small child presses them. This functionality can help him learn the
> alphabets and also the name of some speacial characters. Like on
> pressing the * key the speaker speeks asterisk, on pressing the # key
> it will speak the hash word and so on.
>
> 2. A single word speaker
>
> Now this functionality can be implemented with write activity. This
> can be achieved with the help of a pykeylogger which will run in the
> background. Now as the user types words in the write activity, the
> pykeylogger will store all the characters typed. As the user presses
> the space, all the words which are actually forming the word typed by
> the user, and which are stored by the pykeylogger will be sent to the
> TTS engine. So in this manner as the user types one word the speaker
> will speak the entire word typed.
> This feature will be helpful to the children in knowing the exact
> pronunciation of the word they are typing. Also they can easily
> memorize the word and at the same time can learn those newly typed
> words.
> These two options can be provided with the GUI for the speech
> configuration which I have already proposed in my application.
> I want comments on this idea.
>
> Regards
> Chirag
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