Re: [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:03, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: Hemant, Tomeu, Assim and all, Has there been any progress on TTS since last summer? I'd love to see this project move forward. Prabhas has also indicated some interest in working on language-learning support, which is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2009-02-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Samuel -- I'd like to call your attention again to SynPhonyhttp://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/. We are close to a base release (probably this week) of a 44,000 word English word database that has a very rich array of information helpful to the teaching of English, especially reading. A 10,000

Re: What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2009-02-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Hemant, Tomeu, Assim and all, Has there been any progress on TTS since last summer? I'd love to see this project move forward. Prabhas has also indicated some interest in working on language-learning support, which is directly related... It would also be nice to have Listen and Spell among the

Re: What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2008-12-16 Thread James Simmons
Ed, Thanks for your response. I never questioned that there was still interest in TTS on the XO. What I was wondering is if there was any progress made by Hemant Goyal or anyone else in getting the Speech-Dispatcher software included with the Sugar distribution, if the newer version of

Re: What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2008-12-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: Ed, Thanks for your response. I never questioned that there was still interest in TTS on the XO. What I was wondering is if there was any progress made by Hemant Goyal or anyone else in getting the

What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2008-12-11 Thread James Simmons
I've haven't been working on the XO lately (my basement office had to go through Mold Remediation after a flood) but I have been monitoring this mailing list every day. When I last did any development work on the XO it was to create a mostly successful text to speech feature for the Read

Re: What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2008-12-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
Welcome back. There is significant interest from other organizations in our use of TTS with text coloring. I have just started discussions with the Doug Engelbart Foundation, Creative Commons ccLearn, Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research, and OLE about a new project to create a full range of teaching