Emotion based TTS engine for Okular

[Pranjal]

On Tuesday 15 November 2016 05:02 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El diumenge, 13 de novembre de 2016, a les 18:29:15 CET, Pranjal va escriure:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi
>
>> I am new to the community. Me and my friends are doing final year
>> undergraduate project on synthesizing emotion based speech from PDF.
>
> Is it really PDF specific?
>
>> The
>> project is primarily based on the research paper attached in this mail.
>> I have used Jovie and KMouth with Okular extensively in the past, but
>> they are too robotic in their speech output with absolutely no display
>> of emotions. Since there is no inbuilt PDF reading support in Okular, we
>> were thinking, instead of making a stand-alone project, we can
>> contribute it to Okular. If Okular stands on the policy of no inbuilt
>> read-aloud feature, then we would like to make it as a plugin (like
>> jovie and KMouth) for Okular.
>> Can someone please help me with regards to this?
>
> Can this improvements instead go to jovie/kmouth/somewhere else instead of
> just Okular so more projects benefit from it?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>>
>> Pranjal
>
>

Our University project requirements don't allow just modifications in 
the existing projects. A significant amount of implementation is 
required. That is why making improvements in Jovie/Kmouth would not 
count, making a system/module/library like them would.


Pranjal