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>