[Development] Qt Speech in Qt 5.6

[Jeremy Whiting]

Samuel,

That looks good (from me, with not much Android experience), though
there are some things to improve that are already commented on that
review since April. Are you planning to fix those and update it?

BR,
Jeremy

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Samuel Nevala
<samuel.nevala at intopalo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a project that needs tts and asr on Qt android. Here is my
> tts for android https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/111462/. It is WIP and
> far for ready. I'm also working on asr API with pocketsphinx as backend. I
> can do code reviews on android side at least.
>
> Samuel Nevala
>
> On 8 May 2015 at 17:36, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, Luke said in irc he will do a release of speech-dispatcher 0.8.3
>> this month.
>>
>> I would definitely like to see QtSpeech in Qt 5.6. I do have a couple
>> of concerns, but they should be fixable.
>> 1. The tests use timers to check functionality. This seems to be
>> broken in some cases and not reliable. I think we should only test
>> what can reliably be tested. I.e. set rate, check the rate we get back
>> is what we gave it, etc.
>> 2. The android backend is very empty at the moment. I'm sure someone
>> that is knowledgeable in Qt on Android should be able to fill in the
>> missing bits pretty quickly, but that hasn't happened yet and ought to
>> get done before QtSpeech is added to 5.6.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Frederik Gladhorn
>> <frederik.gladhorn at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>> > On Friday, May 08, 2015 10:41:04 AM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Friday 08 May 2015 14:59:22 Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
>> >> > Hello,
>> >> >
>> >> > I'd like to propose inclusion of QtSpeech in Qt 5.6.
>> >> >
>> >> > Currently the module implements text to speech on Lin/Win/OS
>> >> > X/Android and
>> >> > there is a patch for iOS which needs to be re-done but works as proof
>> >> > of
>> >> > concept.
>> >> > My only concern is currently the license of speech-dispatcher which
>> >> > is at
>> >> > the moment used on Linux. They just changed the license everywhere to
>> >> > LGPL,
>> >> > but this change has not yet been released. That means for the time
>> >> > being
>> >> > the module would be LGPL only on Linux, we are planning to look into
>> >> > alternative synthesizers though.
>> >>
>> >> Any chance to ask upstream to release the code soon? If I'm not wrong
>> >> that
>> >> would help the Qt project for releasing and we distros will not have
>> >> much of
>> >> a problem with the old version.
>> >
>> > The release is planned for around May 20 if I understand correctly, so
>> > yes.
>> > Jeremy and Luke also added a bit of API for our needs (or fixing some of
>> > the
>> > most urgently missing pieces).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Frederik
>> >
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