Hello, I will be also glad to focus on such a project.
As a note, a talking mobile, offering eyes-free applications can probably interest visually impaired or sighted persons. Today, the Linux desktop offers several alternatives for speech enabling applications. For example: * Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak in text-based mode. * The Gnome Accessibility Project, particularly, the Orca and LSR screen readers, distinct Accessibility APIs. Does some of these concepts may benefit to a mobile with native GTK+ based applications? I guess that firstly an evaluation is needed to measure its feasibility. The Speakup and Gnome Accessibility lists have been informed of this thread. For info, eSpeak is a GPL voice synthesizer: http://espeak.sf.net Some features: - multi languages, - small footprint, - runs on Intel or ARM platforms. Today it works with Orca, Speakup (via Speech-Dispatcher), Emacspeak and more. eSpeak will be the default voice synthesizer in Ubuntu Feisty. Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community