Speech-synthesis: Difference between revisions

1.  '''What is your name?'''

  Chirag Jain

2.  '''What is your email address?'''

  chiragjain1989[AT]gmail[DOT]com

3.  '''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''

  chiragjain1989

4.  '''What is your IRC nickname?'''

  chirag

5.    '''What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if  you'd prefer.)'''

  Hindi and English

6.  '''Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)'''

   [TODO]

7.  '''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?'''

#I was not aware of a thing like open source before I stepped into my college. But then I heard a lot about this stuff from seminars and my other seniors. Then I started participating in coding events and my first open source event was AI Challenge organized during our technical fest. I did write a simulator code for the event.

#Link: http://www.code.google.com/p/artificial-intelligence.

#Then I also made a Sudoku solver in open source using a back tracking method in C++. The algorithm has complexity which is exponential in nature.

#Link: http://www.code.google.come/p/sudoku-crazy

#Now after knowing a lot about open source I want to gain some real time experience in open source development. The GSoC is an opportunity where I can apply my technical skills, can learn new things and at the same time can contribute something to the society.  

8.  '''What is the name of your project?'''

  Speech Synthesis

9.  '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

#I am trying to integrate speech in the core sugar. Means I am trying to provide speech synthesis as a basic functionality   in sugar. According to me and a survey [EXPLAIN], language learning can be a great experience if done with speech. The literacy rate can be increased by 6-10% if speech is also included with text because this is the ability of our brain to easily remember sounds rather than text. So I am making this activity for children learning language of age group 5-15 or even older people.

##I discussed a lot with alsroot, assimd and besmac on IRC about this project. The main points of discussion are:

a.  The main aim of sugar in speech synthesis is to integrate the speech in core sugar.  

b.  Integrating speech in core sugar means providing a speech generator as a basic functionality in sugar. Thus if there is any window containing a text is open in sugar then the selected text can be read out by the application running behind.