Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2012-01-19 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 01/17/2012 10:48 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hi Gonzalo, thanks for the patch! Here are a few notes: - when you have a text selected and want it to be spoken out a clipboard entry is created (I guess you need to have a look at why the clipboard tray reacts to that selection) I only see

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2012-01-19 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote: On 01/17/2012 10:48 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hi Gonzalo, thanks for the patch! Here are a few notes: - when you have a text selected and want it to be spoken out a clipboard entry is created (I guess you need to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2012-01-18 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 17 Jan 2012, at 21:48, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Gonzalo, thanks for the patch! Here are a few notes: - when you have a text selected and want it to be spoken out a clipboard entry is created (I guess you need to have a look at why the clipboard tray

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2012-01-18 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi Gonzalo, Hey Gary! It's true. I have added controls to pause/stop in the palette. I have tried with two options (please see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Global_Text_To_Speech) Thanks for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2012-01-17 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hi Gonzalo, thanks for the patch! Here are a few notes: - when you have a text selected and want it to be spoken out a clipboard entry is created (I guess you need to have a look at why the clipboard tray reacts to that selection) I only see this problem with the Write activity, not with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2012-01-12 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 22/11/11 03:23, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Attached is a first try of implementation, to discuss. Is using gstreamer-plugins-espeak, already included in the last images, and used in all the activities using text-to-speech. Do not add any new dependency. A device is added in the frame to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Attached is a first try of implementation, to discuss. Is using gstreamer-plugins-espeak, already included in the last images, and used in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
There's also speech-dispatcher which is an option (and which I think was used by OLPC quite some time ago). Petr Yes. I like the possibility of using not only espeak but festival too, but right now will be add another dependency. I have heard very nice examples of Festival voices, but I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-23 Thread James Simmons
All, Speech-dispatcher was used by the earliest version of Read Etexts to support speech. The big downside is that you need to configure it. When you install the RPM for it it installs espeak, Festival, and some other stuff too. Aleksey Lim created the gstreamer plugin, and also modified Read

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: All, Speech-dispatcher was used by the earliest version of Read Etexts to support speech.  The big downside is that you need to configure it.  When you install the RPM for it it installs espeak, Festival, and some other

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-22 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Attached is a first try of implementation, to discuss. Is using gstreamer-plugins-espeak, already included in the last images, and used in all the activities using text-to-speech. Do not add any new dependency. A

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-21 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Attached is a first try of implementation, to discuss. Is using gstreamer-plugins-espeak, already included in the last images, and used in all the activities using text-to-speech. Do not add any new dependency. A device is added in the frame to configure pitch and velocity, and the hotkey

[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-15 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I want propose the feature Global Text to Speech [1] In fact, the functionality was already designed, and part implemented, but is not working in Sugar. We have code in Speak, Read and Memorize activities implementing the call to the backend, the only missing part is a icon device to configure

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I want propose the feature Global Text to Speech [1] In fact, the functionality was already designed, and part implemented, but is not working in Sugar. We have code in Speak, Read and Memorize activities implementing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-15 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I am already working on that ;) Also, we need to deHippo the speak code :P -walter Gonzalo [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GlobalTextToSpeech ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I want propose the feature Global Text to Speech [1] In fact, the functionality was already designed, and part implemented, but is not working in Sugar. We have code in Speak, Read and Memorize activities implementing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

2011-11-15 Thread Samuel Klein
+1 This would be amazing. This would also encourage more people to contribute to the speech engine for their language or dialect. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I want propose the feature Global Text to Speech [1] In fact, the functionality was