Re: using libertas_tf with F11 on XO-1
Hi Martin, On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 21:45, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Assim Deodia assim.deo...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to load libertas_tf_usb module on XO-1 to use it as an AP. but when I modprobe libertas_tf_usb (after unloading libertas and usb8xxx Hi Assim! I don't think many people have been playing with it recently -- though it is important and we'd love to see it working (and a howto, or patches, if you come up with any). I can suggest some leads to follow: AFAIK, the libertas_tf we carry is the same as upstream, so these instructions are relevant http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/libertastf I have already followed these instructions as it is. They are same as on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Libertas_Thinfirmware_HOWTO. But for some reason they does not seems to be working. atleast not at my end. You are talking about building your own kernel -- was libertas_tf not compiled for the kernel on F11/XO-1? libertas_tf doesn't come compile in pre-build kernels. I have rebuilt the kernel rpms with libertas_tf and libertas_tf_usb enabled. if anyone interested in testing at their own end can get the rpms from me. I also tried blacklisting libertas and usb8xxx but still they are loading at the boot time. That's weird, but may be happening in the initramfs. If the above hints don't help, might be time to open a conversation at linux-wireles http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/MailingLists#linux-wireless_online_archives I will try some more hacks at my end else will mail the above list. Thanks for the pointers. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- Assim Deodia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
using libertas_tf with F11 on XO-1
Hi, I am trying to load libertas_tf_usb module on XO-1 to use it as an AP. but when I modprobe libertas_tf_usb (after unloading libertas and usb8xxx ) eth0 disappears and wmaster0 appears. Googling wmaster0 shows that its a hidden interface which sometime shows up and is use for internal purpose. I guess the driver is not recognizing the hardware. modprobe does not report any error and lsmod shows libertas_tf_usb and libertas_tf being loaded. no error in system logs too. I also tried blacklisting libertas and usb8xxx but still they are loading at the boot time. I have installed a freshly compiled kernel with libertas_tf and libertas_tf_usb enabled following [1] and [2] and using [3] as the source and i am using F11 on XO-1. I have compiled the kernel on XO itself. Is there something I am missing? -- Regards, Assim Deodia [1] http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4708.0;wap2 [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Libertas_Thinfirmware_HOWTO [3] http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/f11-xo1/kernel-2.6.31_xo1-20100505.1835.1.olpc.b072a92.src.rpm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC
Hi Satya, It great to see that you are interested in the development of TTS for OLPC. We already have integrated TTS engine espeak shipped with XO which support many languages including Hindi. It is pretty small and highly resource efficient. check this out: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ As a part of this Google summer of Code, Hemant has worked on integration of speech synthesis in XO(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Hemant_goyal). Uptill now we have a ready to use speech-server (speech-dispatcher) for XO and activities are being developed using that server. For the test drive: 1: Install the speech-dispatcher ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Hemant_goyal#RPM_Packaging_update_3) (Hemant can point you to latest rpm for OLPC) and then install my activity 2: Download my activity from http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-olpc/downloads/detail?name=Assim_Deodia.tar.gzand untar it. 3: Install the .xo package using sugar-bundle-install listen-spell.xo and then run the activity. If you wish to extend the work done till now, Hemant can help you out with this. -- Regards Assim Deodia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC
Oops.. I just made a fool of myself. Sorry i confused speech-to-text with text-to-speech. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:45, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Assim, Hi Satya, It great to see that you are interested in the development of TTS for OLPC. We already have integrated TTS engine espeak shipped with XO which support many languages including Hindi. It is pretty small and highly resource efficient. check this out: Satya's talking about speech-to-text, not text-to-speech. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Assim Deodia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Problem installing sugar desktop interface in Fedora 7
Hi, I am trying to run sugar desktop environment on Fedora 7 after installing it using yum. This is the output i get when i try to run it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sugar Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/sugar-shell, line 30, in module from main import main File /usr/share/sugar/shell/main.py, line 34, in module import view.Shell File /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/Shell.py, line 38, in module from view.frame import frame File /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/frame/frame.py, line 21, in module import hippo ImportError: /usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0: undefined symbol: g_dgettext I have tried this after intsalling glib 2.17.2 also. still it is showing same error. Is there any package missing? -- Regards Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Dictionaries/spell checkers
Hi Sayamindu, I am working on Google Summer of Code project Listen and Spell ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell) uner the mentorship of Dafydd Harries. The is like a word game in which computer speaks the word using speech synthesis and user has to spell is correctly. For this I needed a dictionary with meanings and sample. I found a wordnet (english) dictionary (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/) which, after removing alpha numeric words and all other data except the sample and definition, has served my purpose. It was about 200Mb which after striping down is now about 12 Mb and consisting about 77535 words in SQLite format. As dictionary is required by other applications also, I wonder if it is feasible to centralised a dictionary service in XO? You can see the dictionary working in the command line application of Listen and Spell (http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/listen-spell). On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 01:56, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone provide me with any information on the dictionaries/spellcheckers that we ship in our builds ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Regards Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Request for Project Hosting: Listen and Spell
1. Project name : Listen and Spell
2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell
3. One-line description : The idea is to develop an application
which would help children to
learn new words, improve their vocabulary and pronunciation of words.
4. Longer description :The activity would speak out a randomly
selected word from a predefined set of words
and the user is expected to spell the word correctly. This activity is
a part of Google Summer of Code 2008.
5. URLs of similar projects : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype
6. Committer list
Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail
- --
#1 assimAssim Deodia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
#2 dafDafydd Harries
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Both already have account.
7. Preferred development model
[X] Central tree.
8. Set up a project mailing list:
[X] No
9. Commit notifications
[X] No commit notifications, please
10. Shell accounts
~No
11. Translation
~No required right now.
12. Notes/comments:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/appinfo.html?csaid=F042B0319BC16F53
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Request for Project Hosting: Listen and Spell
1. Project name : Listen and Spell
2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell
3. One-line description : The idea is to develop an application
which would help children to
learn new words, improve their vocabulary and pronunciation of words.
4. Longer description :The activity would speak out a randomly
selected word from a predefined set of words
and the user is expected to spell the word correctly. This activity is
a part of Google Summer of Code 2008.
5. URLs of similar projects : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype
6. Committer list
Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail
- --
#1 assimAssim Deodia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
#2 dafDafydd Harries
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Both already have account.
7. Preferred development model
[X] Central tree.
8. Set up a project mailing list:
[X] No
9. Commit notifications
[X] No commit notifications, please
10. Shell accounts
~No
11. Translation
~No required right now.
12. Notes/comments:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/appinfo.html?csaid=F042B0319BC16F53
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Listen and Spell Update
Hi All, Based on SJ's comment I have updated my wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell. I have given the implementation details of the Dictionary to be used in the activity. Can someone comment on its feasibility in XO? I have an another idea to implement the Dictionary. Saving all the dictionary data in XO will take to much space. We can implement a dedicated dictionary server in parallel to the school server. This would allow us to store dictionary of other languages also. There are many dictionary server available which are free to use. Some of them can be viewed here: http://www.dict.org/links.html. Would it be possible to implement one of these at school server? -- Regards Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Listen and Spell Activity for GSoC
Hi All, I would like to inform everybody that I have submitted an application for Listen and Spell which is a self voicing activity that would help children to learn new words, improve spellings and pronunciation. This activity is the extension of the idea by Tom Hannen ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype) which is based on a 1970's toy Speak and Spell ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy) ). The activity would speak out a word randomly from a word list and user is expected to spell it correctly. The Activity would speak each letter as the user types on. After the user submits the word, activity would speak out the whole word and tell if it is correct or not. If not user retries the word again or change it. Also hearing the difference between the two sounds user can feel the difference between his and the correct spelling. The application would use speech-dispatcher for voicing whose rpm is under review process and would soon be approved. I have already got approved its dependency dotconf RPM. I wish to use word list from the Words activity ( http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/words/Words-2.xo. ) to generate the list to be spoken out. This multi-lingual dictionary would be a great tool to add other different languages in the activity. I have planned to provide a Hint feature which would speak out either the word definition or its usage in a sentence to help user identify the word. The activity will also support user defined word list which would be useful for spelling test at school level (or as a game between two or more user over mesh network). The activity can also be used as memorizing tool as many people learn more by hearing things. I have created a wiki page which has been updated after my previous post ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell ) for the describing the basic idea of the activity and discussed some of its features. I am looking for a mentor who is interested in mentoring this speech - synthesis based learning tool. -- Regards Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Interest in GSOC 2008
Hi All, I have been working on Speech Synthesis for past few months starting from Summer of Content. I wish to undertake the Listen and Spell project for Google summer of code. Listen and Spell would be a self voicing activity that would help children to learn new words, improve spellings and pronunciation. The activity would speak out a word and user is expected to spell it correctly. After the user submits the word, activity would speak it out . This would let user to feel the difference between his and the correct spelling. The activity is based on the idea of TalknType (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype ). The application would use speech-dispatcher for voicing whose rpm is under review process and would soon be approved. I have already got approved its dependency dotconf RPM. I wish to use Words activity ( http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/words/Words-2.xohttp://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecjb/words/Words-2.xo. ) to generate the word list to be spoken out. This multi-lingual dictionary would be a great tool to add other different languages in the activity. It will also help in implementing the Hint feature which would speak out either the word meaning or its usage as a hint to user. The activity will also support user defined word list which would be useful for spelling test at school level (or as a game between two or more user over mesh network). The activity can also be used as memorizing tool as many people learn more by hearing things. I have created a wiki page ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell ) for the describing the basis idea of the activity and discussed some of its features. I would like to know your suggestion about the proposed features and their feasibility in XO or any other ideas to include. I would also like to know if anyone can mentor me for this project in GSoC. -- Regards Assim Deodia -- Regards Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Speech Synthesis Integration - User Interfaces and other Implementation Considerations
Hi, On 3/1/08, Hemant Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was thinking while the packaging of speech dispatcher continues I could finalize certain UI considerations for speech synthesis. I had a word with Tomeu and he advised me to write all the points in a mail to the list. Particularly we want to focus on : 1. A Speech Configuration Management for Sugar 1. Provision of a control panel for modifying speech synthesis parameters 2. How these parameters will be stored and retrieved when changes are made 3. What parameters to expose? 1. Language - Perhaps this should be the sugar default? 2. Voice Selection - Male/Female, Child/Adult, Age 3. Rate 4. Pitch 5. Volume 2. GUI considerations 1. A Speech Synthesis Button 1. Has many states - Play/Stop (Pause?) 2. Reveals a control panel for modifying the speech synthesis parameters and provides a text box for getting some text data for speech synthesis? 2. What to text to send for speech synthesis? 1. If some text is highlighted then that text should be sent 2. If no text is highlighted and speech synthesis button is clicked 1. Send data of some active window and provide karaoke style highlighting of text? 2. Continue synthesis until the end of the document or stop button is pressed We can even have the speech systhesis to be synchronized with the scroll bar (Read/Browse activity) so that instead of reading whole page again it only reads out the new text which has appeared due to scrolling or in case of page change it can read the diff part. 1. Possibly a Speech Synthesis keyboard shortcut too - Should effect the Speech Synthesis button 2. Speak out a welcome message to the child when the XO boots up? (Hello xyz welcome to sugar or something like that?) Please share any other ideas which you think can improve the User Experience wrt speech synthesis. I'd like to write the patches and wrap up the coding by the time speech dispatcher RPMs are ready so that we can roll this feature in the XOs and get some feedback :) Thanks! -- Hemant Goyal -- Regards Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Espeak 1.29 rpm
Hi All, We are trying to install espeak using yum install espeak but this is installing espeak version 1.28 whereas latest is 1.29. We tried to search for RPM of 1.29 but was not able to find it. Is there any way to get 1.29 working on XO? espeak 1.28 has some bugs like it cannot espeak words starting with any of the characters 'ckpqtvz'. Is there any work around to fix this bug? -- With Regards Assim ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
evince module in read-activity
Hi All, We are trying to figure out a way to pick the rendered text and pipe it to espeak for text to speech synthesis. We were going through read-activity.py and there it has imported evince module in it. We tried to search it on git repository but were unable to find it. Is there any documentation which discusses how evince-olpc project is being used in read-activity. From what we realized evince-olpc was a C project while read-activity is a python based project. How is the interfacing being done between the two projects? Can anyone point to some resources which discusses how the evince class is being used in read-activity. Or what would be the most suitable way to get the text data from read-activity. Thanks -- With Regards Assim ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
