Re: Gnome-speech

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

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
> 

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ciaoTJ