Features/Global Text To Speech

Summary

When the user press Alt+Shift+S the currently selected text should be said by the computer.

Owner

• Name: Gonzalo Odiard
• Email: gonzalo at laptop dot org

Current status

• Targeted release: 0.96
• Last updated: 21 Nov 2011
• Percentage of completion: 80%

Detailed Description

The feature add a service to provide text to speech, and a device in the frame to configure pitch and velocity. A already reserved alt-shift-s key stroke say the selected text in any activity.

The actual implementation does not add any new dependency, and a initial version has been sent to sugar-devel for review.

Old information:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_Server

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_synthesis

Tickets:

A GSOC project from Hemant Goyal worked in this area, related links:

1. Google Summer of Code Logs ‐ http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=User:Hemant_goyal
2. python‐dotconf – parser for the dot.conf configuration file ‐ http://code.google.com/p/python‐dotconf/
3. pydotconf API documentation ‐ http://www.nsitonline.in/hemant/stuff/python‐dotconf/docs/
4. speech‐dispatcher RPM packages for OLPC ‐ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6374
5. python‐dotconf RPM packages for OLPC – http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6527
6. Patches for sugar ‐ http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/hemantgoyal/speech;a=summary
7. speechd python API ‐ http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/speechd/src/python/speechd/client.py?view=markup
8. Active dev.laptop.org TRAC tickets relevant to the project
   1. Inclusion of speech‐dispatcher packages ‐ http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7906
   2. Inclusion of python‐dotconf packages ‐ http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7907
   3. Integration of speech‐synthesis into Sugar ‐ http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7911
   4. Speech Device Icon Review ‐ http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7911
9. Listen n Spell ‐ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell
10. Read Etexts http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read_Etexts

Benefit to Sugar

Text to speech is a good feature to kids, when they are learning to read, and to kids with disabilities

Scope

The change is isolated.

UI Design

I propose use de default language now, and only expose controls to set pitch and velocity. In a later change, we can implement have more than one language enabled, and a switch to change it.

The UI will be a device in the frame, with the needed controls in the palette.

How To Test

Features/Global Text To Speech/Testing

Dependencies

We already include all the needed dependencies.

Comments and Discussion

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