Dr. Bill Peet wrote: >Hello All, > >I've been lurking for several years, but this item has pulled me out of >hiding. > >I want to point out, just in case it has not been mentioned by Taran or >others, that the initial Simputer had a text-to-speech synthesizer built >into it for several Indian languages, which made it possible for >non-literate users to use the computer to 'read' text files written in their >own language. I'm hoping that this feature is still there, and will be >expanded. I know there is a linguist in the UK or Europe who was working on >a talking word processor authoring kit, which would allow the author to >speak in the crucial phonemics of any language, written or not, and create a >roman/arabic orthography-based talking word processor in the target >language. > >Putting these two capacities together is a project that would interest me >greatly. > >Feedback? > > Actually - not only Yes, but *YES*. This has been one of the brainstorms I've been having in lucid moments of my 'spare time' :-) While getting a software package to handle speech recognition and 'reading' isn't something of the features that I have seen on the Simputer.
This actually also fits in with Mobcasting as well, in the context of translation - I detailed a bit about that aspect here: http://www.knowprose.com/node/1438 Of course, audio uploads I do from the Simputer will be called... SimCasts. You can have your Apple trademarks and eat them too. :-P But there are other things that I wrote of which also link in - like this particular post on WorldChanging.com: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000530.html I'm slowly getting into the network of people who are doing things with Simputers - and that's important, because I certainly wouldn't want to start a parallel project on anything when I could contribute to an existing project. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Jose, Costa Rica [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
