Interest in GSOC 2008

[Tomeu Vizoso]

2008/3/21 Alex Escalona <aescalona at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing to express interest in the GSoC 2008 mentorship offered by the
> One Laptop Per Child association. I am a first-year graduate student in
> computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology's MSCS program. My
> disciplinary interests include general topics in the broad field of
> computational-linguistics, social issues in computer science, open-source
> software, and programming in general. I have closely followed the
> development of the OLPC's mission to make laptops available to children
> around the world. In fact, I have blogged on a few opportunities on issues
> related to the OLPC's work (see here and here, for posts on these topics at
> http://randomatom.blogspot.com).
>
> In particular, I would be interested in helping further development in the
> areas of speech-synthesis/TTS, especially as concerns localization of
> languages and dialects, as well any general language-learning efforts at
> OLPC, including eSpeak (TalknType and Speech Server), among others. I
> completed numerous courses in Linguistics in my undergraduate studies in
> Anthropology and Latin-American studies at the University of Chicago,
> including a full year of introductory courses in semantics, phonetics,
> morphology, syntax, and other general topics in linguistics. I have also
> studied German, Russian, and Romani (a SE European language spoken by the
> Roma people), and am a native-speaker of Spanish, my mother tongue. In
> addition, I am versed in Java, and have programmed in C#, OCaml, C, C++,
> SQL, MySQL. I have used SVN on several projects, including as a
> collaborative version-control system. Moreover, I am currently enrolled in a
> course on programming languages and translators which covers topics in
> scanning, parsing, compiler design, and other topics of interest in
> language-related applications.
>
> In conclusion, I would welcome the opportunity to speak more about my
> interests in these areas, as well as to hear more about the OLPC's efforts
> in general linguistic and socio-cultural applications.

Hi, please consider joining us at the next sugar meeting that will
have a special focus on TTS:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004624.html

Would be good if you could add to the topics in the wiki page mentioned there.

Thanks,

Tomeu