Comments on: Who is this thing for? http://snowedin.net/blog/2006/06/01/who-is-this-thing-for/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:05:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marcin http://snowedin.net/blog/2006/06/01/who-is-this-thing-for/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Marcin Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:26:59 +0000 http://www.snowedin.net/blog/?p=685#comment-424 AFAIK <a href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/" rel="nofollow">festival</a> is the most popular Linux speech synthesis system AFAIK festival is the most popular Linux speech synthesis system

]]> By: Rob (AbiWord) http://snowedin.net/blog/2006/06/01/who-is-this-thing-for/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Rob (AbiWord) Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:25:34 +0000 http://www.snowedin.net/blog/?p=685#comment-423 I've been pondering the idea of adding drawing to AbiWord for some time, thanks to Jean Brefort tirelessly working on goffice this is now more feasible than ever. I’ve been pondering the idea of adding drawing to AbiWord for some time, thanks to Jean Brefort tirelessly working on goffice this is now more feasible than ever.

]]> By: Tim http://snowedin.net/blog/2006/06/01/who-is-this-thing-for/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Tim Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:16:47 +0000 http://www.snowedin.net/blog/?p=685#comment-422 Looking around a little bit, I came across this that you might be interested in: <a href="http://www.drpeet.com/whyhow.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.drpeet.com/whyhow.htm</a> There's a good discussion there about "talking" word processors as a means for children to learn language. (note: this would be text-to-speech, not speech recognition) The basic idea is that by letting children hear letters as they're typed and hear complete words that they've typed, it helps them to link both what they're learning in written language skills and oral language skills. It looks like the research to justify it is probably already there. As for technical implementation, it looks like there are at least some GPL tools for speech synthesis -- not sure how well any of them work, though. In particular, the first thing I came across was: <a href="http://rsynth.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://rsynth.sourceforge.net/</a> (mentions multiple langauge support, but it seems to be old and unmaintained). Looking around a little bit, I came across this that you might be interested in:
http://www.drpeet.com/whyhow.htm

There’s a good discussion there about “talking” word processors as a means for children to learn language. (note: this would be text-to-speech, not speech recognition)

The basic idea is that by letting children hear letters as they’re typed and hear complete words that they’ve typed, it helps them to link both what they’re learning in written language skills and oral language skills.

It looks like the research to justify it is probably already there.

As for technical implementation, it looks like there are at least some GPL tools for speech synthesis — not sure how well any of them work, though. In particular, the first thing I came across was: http://rsynth.sourceforge.net/ (mentions multiple langauge support, but it seems to be old and unmaintained).

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