[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Attached is a first try of implementation, to discuss.

Is using gstreamer-plugins-espeak, already included in the last images,
and used in all the activities using text-to-speech. Do not add any new
dependency.

A device is added in the frame to configure pitch and velocity,
and the hotkey alt-shift-s is used to say the selected text.

The SpeechManager provide a simple say_text method to be used by activities
if needed.

A pending functionality is add a list of languages, to translate it and
have a single list,
and do not need translate this list in every activity. There are code in
Speak activity to do this,
I need look at this.

Gonzalo


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1  This would be amazing.  This would also encourage more people to
> contribute to the speech engine for their language or dialect.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>wrote:
>
>> I want propose the feature "Global Text to Speech" [1]
>>
>> In fact, the functionality was already designed, and part implemented,
>> but is not working in Sugar.
>>
>> We have code in Speak, Read and Memorize activities implementing the call
>> to the backend,
>> the only missing part is a icon device to configure pitch and velocity.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GlobalTextToSpeech
>>
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