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[Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have another person to invite to this list.  "Isaac Porat"
<speakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, is interested in building an OpenMary
interface to his speech-synthesis stack that we both believe can be
ported to Windows, Linux, and Mac.  We kind of wanted to wait for some
working code before mentioning it, but if there's a push to work on
OpenMary, I think we should collaborate.

Bill

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Jacky Alcine <jackyalcine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Due to many "inquires" as to what language we're using, and what are the
> available projects to be worked on; I've devised the following as a
> blueprint for us for now.
> I'm in the process of constructing Launchpad project pages and branches
> that you can push code to for easy access and more immediate
> examination.
> I've just learned how to use Bazaar + Launchpad, and it seems to be the
> standard for Launchpad. If another version control mechanism is to be
> suggested, please reply with a description on how to use it.
>
> Projects At Hand:
>  (*) python-openmary
>  (*) openmary-c++
>  (*) openmary-c++-cli
>
> Q: WHAT IS openMary?
> A: openMary (http://mary.dfki.de/) is a speech synthesis application
> that's keen to our project for the fact that it can render "emotional"
> speech, in better terms, speech that sounds more aesthetically pleasing
> to the end user. We want to use this application in our project and
> permit other projects to use it as well. However, openMary is written in
> Java, and runs as a local HTTP server on the client's computer. We can
> communicate with the hosted version, but that's some extreme bandwidth.
> Our goal is to create libraries in our target programming languages for
> this application so that its power can be harnessed elsewhere.
>
> Q: WHAT LANGUAGES should we code in?
> A: Any language of the following that you feel comfortable with; either
> Python or C++. These two languages are indisputable (to some) for their
> speed and power, so we'd appease to the masses in terms of library
> making.
>
> Q: WHAT LICENSE should I code my application under?
> A: For now, I'm assuming that the GPL2 license is good enough. Licensees
> aren't a developer issue, at least not at the moment.
>
> Q: HOW CAN I track the progress of the other projects?
> A: For now, *this* mailing list is the primary means of being updated
> until the Launchpad project pages are set up by either myself
> (JackyAlcine) or another **appointed** developer.
>
> Q: WHAT should I do now?
> A: If you can code, then you should take a look below.
>
> The C++ and Python libraries (or scripts) have to be able to do the
> following:
>
>        - Provide a *simple* means of initializing, utilizing, and
> ending a openMary interaction session.
>          An openMary interaction session doesn't consist of only
> **one** processed chunk of data; it consists of a whole session of
> processed and received data.
>
>        - Expose the API shown here
> (http://mary.dfki.de:59125/documentation.html); it's included as a PDF
> and HTML document to this email.
>
>        - The approach of doing so should conform to an
> object-orientated style of programming; to ensure software reuse.
>
> NOTE: You might need a bit of understanding of XML schemas and SSML for
> you to fully encapsulate the openMary web API.
>
> Thank you for reading this e-mail (typed it up for 20 mins =]).
> Have a good day, evening, night, whatever.
>
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