On 7 April 2013 20:08, Mikel Artetxe <[email protected]> wrote:
> As for Google Translate's app integrating better in Android, it is true that
> it has some great features that Apertium's app misses. Implementing some of
> them (like offline OCR[1], which was suggested during last GSoC) would be
> nice and relatively easy, but some others (like TTS or voice recognition, at
> least for all the minor languages that Apertium supports)

TTS is not a big problem. eSpeak is available for Android (via the
Eyes-Free project), and I think CMU Flite is too. I added 'generate
with tags' mode to lt-proc for exactly this purpose, but a wrapper to
pick out the ambiguous words and annotate with, say, SSML would be
needed (not a whole lot of work, though).

ASR is more of a problem. PocketSphinx is available for Android, but
there are very few languages with available acoustic models. (If you
want to help to change that, VoxForge (http://www.voxforge.org/) are
building open data for ASR). The English model is relatively well
developed, but they have models for other languages.

> write about topics -and apps- suggested by readers. Wouldn't it be nice to
> suggest them to write an article about Apertium's app? It's just an idea,
> perhaps somebody has already tried something like that...

I'd assume that nobody has, marketing is not a project strong point.
If you have ideas about how we can change that, I know I'd love to
hear them.

-- 
<Sefam> Are any of the mentors around?
<jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you

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