[gcompris-devel] About Art4Apps library

[Isabelle Duston]

Recently I have tried the artificial "text to speach" softwares to generate audio.... the result is amazing, and much easier than getting real recording.

There might be some copyright issue, so I did upload them on art4apps, but may it is some thing to explore...

Happy New Year

Isabelle Duston

> On Jan 11, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net> wrote:
> 
> Le 09/01/2014 22:43, Gonzalo Odiard a écrit :
>> Hello Bruno,
>> 
>> I am working in a python library and rpms to make easier use the Art4Apps
>> resources
>> in applications.
>> Specifically I am trying to make easier create Sugar activities using it,
>> but maybe can be useful for you too.
>> The API is not set in stone...
>> You can get more information here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps
> Hi,
> 
> I am glad to see more people reusing this great resource set.
> 
> I am not very interested in using your API, in fact we already implemented one in GCompris and it works fine for us.
> 
> What would be more interesting is to share and maintain an updated version of these images, their translations and more important the voices.
> 
> I already spend a lot of time on this last year and with my wife we re-recorded the french voices. Very important we added the article in front of each word. It is very important in French because you need to also teach the gender.
> 
> Also I don't see for example our banker_female image. We did some work with the help of Isabelle to obtain more female workers. The original set looks sexist. All our work is in the gnome git or for just the voices on github here : https://github.com/bdoin/GCompris-voices
> 
> For information you probably also saw our online version of this activity : http://gcompris.net/activity/lang/
> 
> So what is important now is is to get more recording contribution. To this end I helped Frederico, a long standing Brasilian contributor, to purchase a zoom recorder [1]. He just got it and is about to start the recording soon.
> 
> On your side do you see opportunities to gather interest of voice recorders all around the world?
> 
> Bruno.
> 
> [1] http://www.zoom.co.jp/products/h1
>