Text to Speech / DBus / MT / IBM | Meadan | Google

[Andrew Clunis]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 10:28 -0500, Todd Kelsey wrote:
> people who would be working on an underlying "accessibility engine"
> for the xo may wish to consider an open approach that could connect
> with a machine translation engine when it becomes available.
> 
> fyi -- an olpc non-profit partner called Meadan (www.meadan.org) is
> doing fundamental research in partnership with IBM on advanced machine
> translation -- the context is multilingual instant messaging and I am
> happy to connect whoever is interested to meadan. 

Meadan looks pretty interesting, but their website is pretty light on
information.  Will their code be Free Software?  What exactly will it
do?
> 
> *mt on xo*
> it may be possible to adapt mt for realistic use within the xo
> ecosystem. i will be chilling with sj on sat 10/27 in cambridge at
> olpc offices if anyone would like to chat about this or see the
> translated instant messaging demo (i can do this remotely too). 
> 
> *google MT api*
> I also wanted to mention that franz och at google opened up their
> statistical MT api and I had been hoping to connect the im client to
> it -- he is interested in getting "chat corpus" -- IBM is working with
> the TrIM client (from MITRE, a gov't thinktank), which can be XMPP --
> but progress is slow -- and I'm wondering if anyone in olpc community
> might be interested in connecting the xo chat thing (or an underlying
> "conversion engine") directly to the google api. that would be
> wonderful. 

That would rely on a singleton service provider, which might not be a
good approach in the long run.  It would be better if the software in
question could be run directly on the XO laptop.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew Clunis