Hi Joshua,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Can this or the Screen Reader project be adapted to reading content,
<br>such as the children's picturebooks provided in the Library? (We would<br>presumably need a text file to go with each document.)</blockquote><div><br> We are working on a speech-server for providing all these features. Currently we are considering the api requirements for many activities that seem to have started using espeak. The speech-server will satisfactorily be able to handle requirements for speech synthesis for self-voicing activities, by wrapping the complexities of espeak connections etc. We had worked on a simple speech-server, however with the evolving requirements of many developers, we are going to restructure the api before making it available on the xo.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In that same vein, would anybody be interested in creating a karaoke<br>activity? Same-language captioning of Bollywood musicals is claimed to
<br>be the most effective literacy measure in India.</blockquote><div><br>Hey nice idea!<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> In espeak, phoneme sets and orthographies can be added for any<br>> language. Do you support this?<br>I plan to experiment with calling espeak via their API but I will make sure to avoid any limitation on the set of languages. I would like to get callbacks for each phoneme while the voice is playing, so that I can shape the mouth correctly for each one. If done well, this could be a nice visual cue to help understand the voice.
</blockquote><div><br>We will try and address your requirements of querying for available
languages, callbacks and event info in the api that we will consider
and design in the coming months. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I would also have to rework how espeak is wired up to gstreamer.
<br>Right now I have espeak write out a wav file and then I play that<br>back via the gst module. I wasn't able to get them piped together in<br>a reliable way. Specifically when I run espeak --stdout and then<br>attach that to a gst pipeline that starts with an fdsrc, it only
<br>works once. I was not able to restart or rebuild a new pipeline to<br>speak another sentence.</blockquote><div><br>The only thing that I;d like to advise about is that you keep the structure modular so that once the speech-server is available (with all other functionality that is required) you dont have to make major changes in your activity.
<br><br>Best,<br>Hemant<br></div></div>