Re: [sugar] An Update about Speech Synthesis

2008-02-20 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 19, 2008 4:45 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemant and James, Can you write something about this at a [[spoken texts]] page on the wiki ('hear and read'? some other more creative name... )? The Google Literacy Project is highlighting a number of literacy efforts for the

Re: An Update about Speech Synthesis

2008-02-19 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, I'd like to see an eSpeak literacy project written up -- Once we have a play button, with text highlighting, we have most of the pieces to make a great read + speak platform that can load in texts and highlight words/sentences as they are being read. Ping had a nice mental model for

Re: An Update about Speech Synthesis

2008-02-19 Thread Samuel Klein
Hemant and James, Can you write something about this at a [[spoken texts]] page on the wiki ('hear and read'? some other more creative name... )? The Google Literacy Project is highlighting a number of literacy efforts for the upcoming World Book Day, and your work would be fine suggestions for

An Update about Speech Synthesis for Sugar

2008-02-18 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, It s great to see many other developers sharing the idea we have been trying to implement right within the Sugar Environment. We have been working on integrating speech-synthesis into Sugar for quite some time now. You can check out our ideas here : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader

Re: [sugar] An Update about Speech Synthesis for Sugar

2008-02-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 18, 2008 6:22 AM, Hemant Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It s great to see many other developers sharing the idea we have been trying to implement right within the Sugar Environment. Yes, thanks to all. We have been working on integrating speech-synthesis into Sugar for quite