Emotion based TTS engine for Okular

[Albert Astals Cid]

El divendres, 18 de novembre de 2016, a les 19:04:01 CET, Pranjal va escriure:
> 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.

That doesn't seem very smart to be honest, re-creating the wheel every single 
time is not how you build a better world.

If you want to implement stuff I guess we can have a look at it at some point, 
but i'm not very interested in "i created stuff from scratch instead of trying 
to improve existing stuff".

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> Pranjal