Brad,<br><br>Maybe we should coordinate our efforts. We are presently working to bring speech synthesis capabilities on the XO.<br><br>We have made significant progress and are documenting our results here : <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader</a> [It is slightly outdated wrt the DBUS speech server, as we are planning to dump that approach and instead use speech-dispatcher]<br>
<br>At present Assim Deodia is working to improve the eSpeak phoneme data for better voice quality/output on the XO, and I am working on integrating speech-dispatcher in the XO as a means of providing a simple to use speech synthesis api.<br>
<br>I have opened a Ticket which might interest you : <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6284">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6284</a><br><br>Best,<br>Hemant<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This posting is very new and, at the moment, consists only of a block diagram of the approach I am proposing. I have several pages of narrative in the works at the moment and I am hoping to post the first version of it to the Free Speech wiki article sometime this weekend. In the meantime, please check out the links in the "See also" section of the article. Those linked-to articles contain links to other speech-related efforts currently underway for the XO (for example, eSpeak).<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Brad</blockquote></div>