Speech to Text Support in OLPC

[satya komaragiri]

Hello

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:20 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> Opinion follows.
>
> This will be interesting.
>
> Children learn to talk in whatever way meets their needs.  Before
> talking, they learn the exact pitch to annoy the heck out of their
> parents ... not sure what the mechanism is, probably just trial and
> error, over days and months, but they end up generating sound that
> matches the hearing of their caring adults.
>
> A friend of mine has degraded hearing and a cochlear implant, her
> hearing frequency response is very narrow.  Her children have learned to
> speak within that frequency band and accentuate the sounds that she can
> hear, suppressing the sounds that she cannot.  Her children sound
> strange to others when they do this.
>
> With a speech to text capability on the XO, no matter how bad it is, the
> result may be that children learn to speak in exactly the way that
> yields the best result.
>

I guess that should help in developing a child's adaptability.Good
point! XO not being very powerful we might not be able to run the
software very optimally.

> A whole generation will sound different when we meet them.  Fantastic.
>

Eventually we'll only know by implementation that how well our
software is functioning and how much does the child have to actually
scream. :)

> This also means it might not be necessary to have the speech to text
> capability work with existing version adults.
>

That makes life a little easier I guess.

Regards
Satya

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