Hi All,<br><br>I have been working on Speech Synthesis for past few
months starting from Summer of Content. I wish to undertake the Listen
and Spell project for Google summer of code.<br><br>Listen and Spell
would be a self voicing activity that would help children to learn new
words, improve spellings and pronunciation. The activity would speak
out a word and user is expected to spell it correctly. After the user
submits the word, activity would speak it out . This would let user to
"feel" the difference between his and the correct spelling. The
activity is based on the idea of TalknType (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype</a> ).<br>
<br>The application would use speech-dispatcher for voicing whose rpm
is under review process and would soon be approved. I have already got
approved its dependency dotconf RPM.<br><br>I wish to use Words activity ( <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecjb/words/Words-2.xo" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/words/Words-2.xo</a>.
) to generate the word list to be spoken out. This multi-lingual
dictionary would be a great tool to add other different languages in
the activity. It will also help in implementing the "Hint" feature
which would speak out either the word meaning or its usage as a hint to
user.<br>
<br>The activity will also support user defined word list which would
be useful for spelling test at school level (or as a game between two
or more user over mesh network). The activity can also be used as
memorizing tool as many people learn more by hearing things.<br>
<br>
I have created a wiki page ( <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell</a>
) for the describing the basis idea of the activity and discussed some
of its features. I would like to know your suggestion about the
proposed features and their feasibility in XO
or any other ideas to include. I would also like to know if anyone can
mentor me for this project in GSoC.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br>Assim Deodia