[Development] Text to Speech classes (tts)

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Fredag 17. januar 2014 18.17.57 skrev Kevin Krammer:
> On Friday, 2014-01-17, 17:43:40, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > Fredag 17. januar 2014 16.13.16 skrev Kevin Krammer:
> > > On Friday, 2014-01-17, 14:42:37, Travis Allen wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 14:21 +0100, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > > > > So this is a request for a repository, playground/qspeech (?). And
> > > > > I'm
> > > > > also open for a name for the repo and "module".
> > > > 
> > > > We will want to be able to do the reverse Speech To Text as well
> > > > (if/when/where available). QSpeech as a repository sounds reasonable
> > > > to
> > > > me.
> > > > I can't come up with a better one.
> > > > 
> > > > Should they be the same module or different modules? Initially I am
> > > > leaning
> > > > towards different modules because some platforms may have one way but
> > > > not
> > > > the other. However on other platforms they may be tightly coupled so
> > > > there
> > > > could be some code re-use between the two modules.
> > > 
> > > I could imagine that the respective system dependencies could rather
> > > different, i.e. speech input and speech output having asymetric
> > > technology
> > > requirements.
> > > 
> > > In which case a single module would drag in both. Are both likely to be
> > > used together or could there be common cases which use only one of them?
> > 
> > That really depends on the application, but no matter what we can even
> > have
> > two libraries in one module/repo, so I wouldn't mind having both in one
> > place unless one of them grows huge.
> 
> I was mostly thinking about consequences of
> QT += speech
> 
> This would make the application link against both libraries, no?

Sure, but it hasn't been released yet ;)
I'd get it started and then see where we end up. I do think this is great 
input and I will have to rename my stuff to not use qspeech but something that 
implies tts in the classes so that the recognition part can coexist nicely.

Thanks for the feedback.

Frederik

> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin

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Best regards,
Frederik Gladhorn
Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt
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