New Activity Proposal -- "Your voice on XO"

[Alex Escalona]

Hi Everyone,

I just created a page on the OLPC wiki detailing my activity proposal--"Your
voice on XO" <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Your_Voice_on_XO>. I hope to develop
this activity via GSoC 2008. A brief abstract of my proposal follows.

This is a proposal for the creation of a new activity for the XO that would
advance localization efforts in TTS development, as well as promote the
involvement of the local community overall. "Your voice on XO" would consist
of a long-term, community-based project to build and/or further development
of a synthetic voice for the language used locally (for more on
synthetic-voice building, see http://www.festvox.org/bsv/p710.html, and
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html).

This activity would entail integrating the voice-building capabilities of
eSpeak <http://espeak.sourceforge.net/>, or perhaps
Festival<http://festvox.org/festival/>,
into Sugar on the XO, as well as working to facilitate synthetic-voice
building in a classroom, or community setting (for an overall view of how
the voice building process might proceed, see
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/summer_school_2005/tutorial3/tutorial.html
).

Your feedback and comments are much appreciated!

Best,

Alex Escalona
("vergueishon" on OLPC wiki, IRC)
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