Hi Edward, This is precisely one of the many applications that I envision for such an activity--reading narrative works to preliterate children in a natural-sounding voice that is familiar to them. At the same time, it would be pretty challenging to truly replicate the human voice, both from a software and hardware perspective, though of course that is a very important, albeit ambitious goal of speech synthesis in general.
Thanks for your support! Best, Alex On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/4 Alex Escalona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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! > > Let's get the voices of mothers and fathers, and grandmothers and > grandfathers, too. On general principles, and for reading to > preliterate children. > > > Best, > > > > Alex Escalona > > ("vergueishon" on OLPC wiki, IRC) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay >
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