Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity

Hi Shikar, You might want to look at how James Simmons uses threads in his ReadEtexts Activity to do speech synthesis using a thread too.. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/readetexts;a=blob;f=ReadEtextsActivity.py;h=c8c7086a4dd9448a2f81b96150dcb551c6d5d217;hb=HEAD Around line 56 or so...

[sugar] super user privileges for speech-dispatcher and location of configuration files for olpc

Hi, We want to run the speech-dispatcher daemon service on the XO for providing a speech synthesis environment in the laptop. For our purpose we want to modify the configuration file of speech-dispatcher in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf from sugar-control panel. sugar-control panel requires

Re: [sugar] next sugar meeting: text-to-speech

Hi all, My apologies for not being present for this sugar meeting (my school exams got over today). * santhosh and HFactor present Dhvani, a text-to-speech system for indian languages. o santhosh has already worked into integrating Dhvani into Speech Dispatcher. This is great news! The

Re: [sugar] Interested in the Google Summer of Code

Hi all, As you all would be already aware that we have been planning/designing/experimenting with speech synthesis tools for the XO. So after all the designs (and next Sugar Meeting for TTS) I'd like to undertake the project and write code to integrate speech synthesis into Sugar in the coming

Re: [sugar] Control-panel GUI design

Hi, I had posted about the Speech Synthesis Control Panel as well. Can we also discuss the inclusion of speech synthesis control parameters within this control panel, while this discussion is alive? A link to my previous post - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004411.html Hi,

Re: [sugar] Speech Synthesis Integration - User Interfaces and other Implementation Considerations

Hi, Can someone please take a look at this mail and provide some guidance please. Thanks! Hemant On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Hemant Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was thinking while the packaging of speech dispatcher continues I could finalize certain UI considerations

Re: [sugar] New multilingual dictionary activity

Hi, Next steps: * I have a Speak button that I'd like to hook up to espeak with the appropriate accent loaded. Josh, any interest in helping to get that working? Should I just wait for the speech server? The speech dispatcher API is what you can use for the speech synthesis.

[sugar] An Update about Speech Synthesis for Sugar

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