What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

[Edward Cherlin]

Welcome back. There is significant interest from other organizations
in our use of TTS with text coloring. I have just started discussions
with the Doug Engelbart Foundation, Creative Commons ccLearn, Alan
Kay's Viewpoints Research, and OLE about a new project to create a
full range of teaching materials around Sugar. TTS-TC is important for
literacy, of course, and also for language learning.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:38 PM, James Simmons
<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> I've haven't been working on the XO lately (my basement office had to go
> through Mold Remediation after a flood) but I have been monitoring  this
> mailing list every day.  When I last did any development work on the XO
> it was to create a mostly successful text to speech feature for the Read
> Etexts activity.  Using this successfully would require some RPMs
> installed on the XO that Hemant Goyal was working on for Fedora, plus a
> newer version of Python that resolved some problems caused by
> threading.  What I remember is that if you used threading at all in your
> activity it prevented power management from working.
>
> I've been cleaning up my basement after the tile installers finished and
> there is some hope that I can resume working on my activity, at least a
> little.  I have my XO upgraded to the latest release of Sugar and it
> looks like Speech Dispatcher still is not part of that release.
>
> I'm well aware of all the other work going on with the XO and I don't
> kid myself that this should be a priority for anyone, but if someone
> could bring me up to date on what's happening with text to speech on the
> XO I'd be much obliged.
>
> James Simmons
>
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