[Development] Text to Speech classes (tts)

Konstantin Ritt ritt.ks at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 19:08:06 CET 2014


+1 to add-on.
Later, we could probably make an accessibility backend on top of it, too.

Regards,
Konstantin


2014/1/17 Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn at digia.com>

> 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
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Frederik Gladhorn
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