[Development] Qt Speech in Qt 5.6

Samuel Nevala samuel.nevala at intopalo.com
Wed May 13 13:40:49 CEST 2015


Jeremy,

I'm planning to work on android tts next week (week21).

Samuel Nevala

On 11 May 2015 at 15:01, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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