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====About you====
====About you====
1. '''What is your name?'''
Q.1:'''What is your name?
A:Chirag Jain
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2. '''What is your email address?'''
Q.2:'''What is your email address?
A:chiragjain1989{AT}gmail{DOT}com
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3. '''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''
Q.3:'''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
A:chiragjain1989
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4. '''What is your IRC nickname?'''
Q.4:'''What is your IRC nickname?
A:chirag
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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.)'''
Q.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.)
A:Hindi and English
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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.)'''
Q.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.)
A: I am located in India, Delhi 5:30+GMT. I can work from early morning to late midnight.
:collaborating with any mentor wouldn't be a big deal.
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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?'''
Q.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?
A: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.
====About your project====
====About your project====
8. '''What is the name of your project?'''
Q.8:'''What is the name of your project?
A:Speech Synthesis in core sugar
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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?'''
Q.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?
A: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 a survey conducted in India [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:
*'''The main aim of sugar in speech synthesis is to integrate the speech in core sugar.
*'''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.
c. The other aim is to develop a GUI for speech configuration which will also act as a configuration mangement tool.
c. The other aim is to develop a GUI for speech configuration which will also act as a configuration mangement tool.