message from Peter Grasch <[email protected]> to festival-talk = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Hi,
I am currently working on building an AT-SPI 2 plugin for the Simon speech recognition software and was looking into how to go from strings like "Write to Mr. Smith" (written in the application) to "Write to Mister Smith" (command to expect from the user). While this functionality is already available in e.g. Orca, it seems that this problem is in fact solved redundantly on many different layers (screen reader, engine, etc.). With something like abbreviation expansion, a large data set is definitely key so adding *another* implementation to Simon is imho the wrong approach. For that reason, I would like to propose a dedicated, shared library that offers translations from "application text" to "spoken text". This library could also offer a configuration interface to allow applications like Orca to provide a way for users to manage this dictionary. As you probably have noticed, I posted this message to the teams of Orca, KDE accessibility, Speech dispatcher, eSpeak and Festival. Coordinating such a large number of diverse teams is always difficult but I'd really like to hear from all of you: Would you be interested in helping to build such a library? If such a library would exist, would you consider using it instead of your current implementation? Best regards, Peter Ps.: I'm subscribed to all the mailing lists I sent this to. You can either reply there or send me private mails. If we can manage to established a team of interested people we can open a separate mailing list. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System = = http://festvox.org/festival Sent Via [email protected] = = To unsubscribe mail [email protected] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Festlang-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/festlang-talk
