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.
Have you actually tried the existing process for adding a voice?
-josh
On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Alex Escalona wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I just created a page on the OLPC wiki detailing my activity
proposal--"Your voice on XO". I hope to develop this activity via
GSoC 2008. A brief abstract of my proposal follows.
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 http://www.festvox.org/bsv/p710.html
, and http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html).
This activity would entail integrating the voice-building
capabilities of eSpeak, or perhaps Festival, 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 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/summer_school_2005/tutorial3/tutorial.html)
.
Your feedback and comments are much appreciated!
Best,
Alex Escalona
("vergueishon" on OLPC wiki, IRC)
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