[Rssview-developers] Re: RssView and speech synthesis ..

[Martin K. <ci...@gm...>]

Am Sat, den 24.01.2004 schrieb Paul Lamere um 17:51:

> Greetings

Hi Paul!

> I've been toying with the idea of a creating a
> speech-enabled rss viewer. The general idea is that as new
> RSS articles arrive the article titles are spoken by a
> speech synthesizer.  With a speech-enabled rss viewer, one
> could minimize the viewer and be informed when new stories
> arrive by voice.

Sounds really good. There are more good reasons to have
speech synthesis in RssView. I like your idea.

> I've done a quick prototype of this using RssView and
> FreeTTS.

Cool. May I know if you used the latest release or the
development version from CVS? We have changed a lot things
recently and improved the capabilities of RssView.

The latest release was a slim version and pretty basic.

> RssView was very easy to use, understand and to expand. Nice
> Job!

I tried to keep it simple. As our team grew and new ideas
were implemented the project got more complex. It is important
to understand some advanced techniques which are implemented
in Java version 1.4 to develop the application further. This
should be no problem to anyone who ever seriously coded with
Java, I think.

> I'd like to turn this prototype into a full-fledged talking
> rss viewer.  I'd be interesting in working with your team to
> make this an optional feature of RSSView.  If you are
> interested in discussing this let me know.

I forwarded your message to the developers mailing list.
I like your idea, that's sure. Of course I can add you to the
developers team, but I need a patch first to see that you
really worked at the project.

Sorry for this, but I had some experience with users who said
"I do that and that", but have never really given me any code.
I hope you will understand this. All the people in our team 
have given me really cool patches.

> By the way, I've worked on a number of open source projects
> including freetts.sourceforge.net and cmusphinx.sourceforge.net.

Sounds good. I will take a look.

Martin Krzysiak