<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This is an awesome idea. A couple of people have contacted me to ask how to add new voices to Speak. It would be great to make this process easier.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you actually tried the existing process for adding a voice?</div><div><br></div><div>-josh</div><br><div><html>On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Alex Escalona wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Everyone,<br><br>I just created a page on the OLPC wiki detailing my activity proposal--<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Your_Voice_on_XO">"Your voice on XO"</a>. I hope to develop this activity via GSoC 2008. A brief abstract of my proposal follows.<br> <br>This is a proposal for the creation of a new activity for the XO that would advance localization efforts in TTS development, as well as promote the involvement of the local community overall. "Your voice on XO" would consist of a long-term, community-based project to build and/or further development of a synthetic voice for the language used locally (for more on synthetic-voice building, see <a href="http://www.festvox.org/bsv/p710.html">http://www.festvox.org/bsv/p710.html</a>, and <a href="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html">http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html</a>). <br> <br>This activity would entail integrating the voice-building capabilities of <a href="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" title="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">eSpeak</a>, or perhaps <a href="http://festvox.org/festival/" class="external text" title="http://festvox.org/festival/" rel="nofollow">Festival</a>, into Sugar on the XO, as well as working to facilitate synthetic-voice building in a classroom, or community setting (for an overall view of how the voice building process might proceed, see <a href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/summer_school_2005/tutorial3/tutorial.html">http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/summer_school_2005/tutorial3/tutorial.html</a>).<br> <br>Your feedback and comments are much appreciated!<br><br>Best,<br><br>Alex Escalona<br>("vergueishon" on OLPC wiki, IRC)<br> _______________________________________________<br>Devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>