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

[James Simmons]

Ed,

Thanks for your response.  I never questioned that there was still 
interest in TTS on the XO.  What I was wondering is if there was any 
progress made by Hemant Goyal or anyone else in getting the 
Speech-Dispatcher software included with the Sugar distribution, if the 
newer version of Python that resolved the power management issue was 
included, etc.  I've sent a couple of emails to Hemant and haven't heard 
back from him.  I was wondering if he was still working on these things, 
or if someone else had taken over his work, etc.  He was making RPMs for 
Fedora for installing speech-dispatcher.

James Simmons

Edward Cherlin wrote:
> 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.
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