Since you're writing out the wave file, it would be nice to be able to convert existing online material to stored waves that can be retrieved at a later date to provide "podcast" like capability for listening while performing some other duty that would not allow you to be hands on. Perhaps a way to "paste in" content and store rather than have the final result be short-lived.
Todd On Jan 10, 2008 12:11 PM, Tom Hannen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be great to combine the features from this and > TalknType (if I can get it working in Sugar)... > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TalknType > > By the way, if you want to look up stuff about mouth shapes for > phoneme animation, check out "Visemes" > http://del.icio.us/search/?p=viseme&type=all > > Tom > > > On Jan 10, 2008 8:05 PM, Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > > > On Jan 10, 2008 1:27 AM, Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi everyone, > > >> I made a new activity called Speak.... > > >> > > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak > > > > > > This is wonderful, because it will allow children to experiment with > > > language, not just type in normal text. > > > > :) > > > > > > > > In espeak, phoneme sets and orthographies can be added for any > > > language. Do you support this? > > > > Speak calls the espeak command line tool to query the available > > languages as well as to generate the audio, so any new or changed > > voices in espeak will show up in Speak automatically. It does filter > > out the Mbrola voices because they don't actually produce sound. I > > plan to experiment with calling espeak via their API but I will make > > sure to avoid any limitation on the set of languages. > > > > > Can this or the Screen Reader project be adapted to reading content, > > > such as the children's picturebooks provided in the Library? (We would > > > presumably need a text file to go with each document.) > > > > > > I think that it would be a great boost for child and adult literacy > > > both if little children could sit on their parents' or grandparents > > > laps and have the XO read them both a story. > > > > XO is the new Teddy Ruxpin :) > > > > I was thinking of adding a toolbar tab to allow for some sort of game/ > > story/lesson modes. It would be cool if someone could write a plugin/ > > extension for a guessing game, story reader, spelling game (ala > > TalknType) or something like that. I have also considered wrapping > > Speak into a reusable component so other activities could add a > > talking face easily. I'm not sure of the best way to do this. > > > > > In that same vein, would anybody be interested in creating a karaoke > > > activity? Same-language captioning of Bollywood musicals is claimed to > > > be the most effective literacy measure in India. > > > > That would be awesome! > > > > >> Also, if anyone has experience or ideas on how to get access to > > >> espeak's per-phoneme timing data from python, please let me know. > > >> > > >> -josh > > > > > > Do you want to do that while running, or would a precomputed table > > > meet your needs? > > > > I would like to get callbacks for each phoneme while the voice is > > playing, so that I can shape the mouth correctly for each one. If > > done well, this could be a nice visual cue to help understand the voice. > > > > I would also have to rework how espeak is wired up to gstreamer. > > Right now I have espeak write out a wav file and then I play that > > back via the gst module. I wasn't able to get them piped together in > > a reliable way. Specifically when I run espeak --stdout and then > > attach that to a gst pipeline that starts with an fdsrc, it only > > works once. I was not able to restart or rebuild a new pipeline to > > speak another sentence. > > > > -josh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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