[gcompris-devel] Sound

[pgeorges]

I tried to find speech synthesis software for linux, avalaible for
several languages. I didn't any complete one. There will always be
missing languages, and adding one is a long and difficult task.
More over, the synthesised sound is not attractive for a child and even
for an adult words are not always easily recognized.
That's why I propose that we use recorded sounds : we all have children
around us and can then easily record them pronouncing key phrases (not
all boards need such sounds).

I propose that ogg vorbis format be used instead of wav to limit size of
files. Unfortunately, gnome does not support ogg (it seems to be a task
for bonobo-media, but don't know much about it - at least it is not
achieved yet).
If we end up with a lot of files, we can make different optional
packages avalaible :

gcompris-core.rpm
gcompris-french.rpm
gcompris-english.rpm
etc.

So, if you agree, we could start adding an API to play ogg sounds ...