<div dir="ltr">Hi Satya,<div><br></div><div>It great to see that you are interested in the development of TTS for OLPC.</div><div><br></div><div>We already have integrated TTS engine "espeak" shipped with XO which support many languages including Hindi. It is pretty small and highly resource efficient. check this out: <a href="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/">http://espeak.sourceforge.net/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>As a part of this Google summer of Code, Hemant has worked on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; ">integration of speech synthesis in XO(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Hemant_goyal">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Hemant_goyal</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; ">). Uptill now we have a ready to use speech-server (speech-dispatcher) for XO and activities are being developed using that server. </span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; ">For the test drive: </span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; ">1: Install the speech-dispatcher (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Hemant_goyal#RPM_Packaging_update_3">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Hemant_goyal#RPM_Packaging_update_3</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; ">) (Hemant can point you to latest rpm for OLPC) and then install my activity </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">2: Download my activity from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-olpc/downloads/detail?name=Assim_Deodia.tar.gz">http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-olpc/downloads/detail?name=Assim_Deodia.tar.gz</a> and untar it.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">3: Install the .xo package using <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">sugar-bundle-install listen-spell.xo </span>and then run the activity.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">If you wish to extend the work done till now, Hemant can help you out with this.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div>-- <br>Regards<br>Assim Deodia<br>
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