Re: Gnome-speech

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Hi Tim and all,

No work has begun on the dictation front-- although imho it would fit 
nicely into this project at some point.

Marc

At 02:17 PM 12/11/2001 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
>
> > In my work with the Gnome Accessibility project, the need has arisen for a
> > generalized interface to various text-to-speech engines and possibly
> > eventually dictation engines.  I have the humble beginnings of a project I
> > preliminarily called gnome-speech, which defines the general Bonobo-based
> > interfaces to the speech synthesis and eventually possibly the
> > speechDictation engines.  This project also currently contains two sample
> > implementations.  I would like to add this project to cvs as module
> > "gnome-speech", and would also appreciate any comments and feedback
> > regarding this idea.  Also, where should the OAF and IDL interfaces be
> > defined in terms of the GNOME namespace?
>
> hm, how far has planning/coding on the dictation engine progressed yet?
> the reason i'm asking is, that stefan westerfeld, and me too to some extend,
> started working on various backend parts for speed recognition some time ago,
> and i'd like to avoid gross dupliation in this area.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marc
> >
>
> ---
> ciaoTJ