Yes, I really want to so something significant with accessibility. I feel that we need some good overarching guidance in this area, so that we are not simply pursuing the most interesting-sounding projects over a summer, but actually addressing comprehensively the set of accessibility issues, and making progress towards a greater goal. I know some excellent people at the CAST project at the Harvard Education school, through Antonio Battro, which I hope we can convince to take a larger role in this.<br>
<br>At any rate, working out an accessibility plan (and identifying existing plans we can base ours off of) is something valuable that needs doing. Ed, perhaps you have some ideas here...<br><br>SJ<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Arjun Sarwal <<a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org">arjun@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Hemant Goyal <<a href="mailto:goyal.hemant@gmail.com" target="_blank">goyal.hemant@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Arjun,<br><br>Thank you very much for the good wishes :). I am extremely excited about finishing this project in the coming summer :D. It'll be nice summer with lots of python and sugar hacking :D<br></blockquote>
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<br>Great to know that! The point I was trying to make was that accessibility has indeed become an important goal in OLPC's developmental efforts hence projects such as yours become so important....<br><br>I remember, SJ, some time back was planning to have a whole summer-of-content dedicated to accessibility, which I think is a great idea. <br>
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<br><br>Arjun<br> </font></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>@Edward: Thats a really nice idea :) There is a lot that can be done with respect to improving the phoneme models of eSpeak for getting better quality sound output. Some resources are posted at : <a href="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html" target="_blank">http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html</a><br>
<br>Best,<br><font color="#888888">Hemant</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Arjun Sarwal <<a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org" target="_blank">arjun@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hemant and Assiem<br>
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Congrats on getting selected in GSoC!!!<br>
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When do your internships start and where will you be working from ?<br>
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Great to see both these that both the selected projects have forked<br>
from the initial Speech Server project that we've worked upon.<br>
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Congrats once again.<br>
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regards,<br>
Arjun<br>
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IRC: arjs on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar<br>
Skype: arjunsarwal85<br>
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