Hello, I am a final year student from India. I wish to apply to GSoC this year by building upon my current work. I had discussed the feasibility and advantages of having Speech Recognition for an OLPC with the devel list [1] in September 2008 and have been working on it since then as a part of the Sarai Fellowship. My progress on that project can be tracked on its wiki page [2]. I am also working on a dictation activity under it though it might take some time as I am currently gathering the speech corpus spoken by children.
This summer, I would like to implement a generic speech library that could be used by any activity so that children can interact with Sugar using voice rather than typing. I spoke to Mr. Assim Deodia(cc'ed in this mail) who developed an activity called 'Listen and Spell' in GSoC last year and is interested in this idea. I can showcase one of its potential usages by integrating speech capabilities to the 'Listen and Spell' activity where the child can spell out the word verbally. I want to let the children speak out the spelling rather than type it out. As the alphabet of any language is limited (26 in the case of English, extension to any language would just mean getting a few people to read out the alphabet of that language). Having a generic library will make system-wide integration easier by abstracting the interactions with the speech engine via DBUS etc. All the activities can use the speech capability as they see fit (spoken commands to control the activity is the most straightforward application that strikes me). It would be really nice if the community could provide us with some feedback on this proposal. :) Regards Satya Komaragiri [1] Dicsussion on the devel list: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/019136.html [2] Speech recognition project page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_to_Text _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel