There's also growing interest in TTS from some potential Summer of Code students, proposing a number of literacy projects. A focused meeting for this would be well done.<br><br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Hemant Goyal <<a href="mailto:goyal.hemant@gmail.com">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;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi all,<br><br>My apologies for not being present for this sugar meeting (my school exams got over today).<br>
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* santhosh and HFactor present Dhvani, a text-to-speech system for<br>
indian languages.<br>
o santhosh has already worked into integrating Dhvani into Speech<br>
Dispatcher.</blockquote><div><br>This is great news! The packaging of speech dispatcher and dotconf is going on, and we'll pick up some speed now that we are free from exams. One of the dependencies of speech-dispathcer,DOTCONF is already approved and the author of the package has been sponsored by a FEDORA Packaging mentor. The next package to be accepted will be speech-dispatcher.<br>
</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;">in today meeting we have agreed on the convenience of having a meeting<br>
mainly focused on the use of text-to-speech systems in Sugar. If<br>
everybody agree, will take place Tuesday March 25 at 15.00 UTC.</blockquote></div><div><br>Brilliant,! I've added a few points that I think I would like to discuss with the sugar team.<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
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I'm sending this to the Accessibility list in the hope that someone<br>
will be interested in contributing in this area.<br>
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If you are interested in attending, please add to the attendants and topics in:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_dev_meeting#Tuesday_March_25_2008_.28.22TTL-meeting.22.29_exceptional_time:_15.00_.28UTC.29" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_dev_meeting#Tuesday_March_25_2008_.28.22TTL-meeting.22.29_exceptional_time:_15.00_.28UTC.29</a></blockquote>
</div><div><br>Just for an update, I tried running orca with speech-dispatcher and at a high level it worked fine. However since we have not been able to integrate basic speech synthesis in sugar, I have avoided researching about this option just yet.</div>
<br>Thank you for keeping a special meeting for TTS!<br><br>Best,<br>Hemant<br></div>
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