February 12, 2005 Meeting
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February 12, 2005 Meeting
Mr. Mehta, Dinesh, Mukesh, Prashant, Saurav & Mansi were present in the meeting which took place at 11 am.
Dinesh demonstrated the Matribhasa, the C-DAC developed multilingual Text to Speech Engine integrated with SAFA. The group felt that the voice quality was inferior to Vaachak.
Following is the summary of the meeting.
Taking advantage of Dinesh’s presence, the group discussed at length about-
• Whether VAACHAK should be dropped and Matribhasa should be adopted as the TTS for SAFA • Whether the group should concentrate at improving the bugs in SAFA in its VB version or it should look at its VB.net ported code and finalise it. • Whether VB was a suitable language for further development of SAFA as a complete screen reader • Could the Linux screen reader Nopernicus be adopted for Windows with multilingual support. • Should the group ditch the present code of SAFA and start afresh
The group agreed to the following:
• That the group will work on removing critical bugs in SAFA, complete user documentation and strive for early release of the product. With VAACHAK • In future, a new project could be taken up for rewriting an improved screen reader in preferably C++ using Matribhasa as it has distinct advantages (open source, multilingual, Unicode support etc). The Linux Nopernicus would be explored about the possibility of easy adoption.
The group has given itself the following tasks:
• Preparation of a comprehensive BUG REPORT on SAFA listing criticality of the bugs • Work on & complete user documentation for SAFA • Make changes in the keyboard configuration files of SAFA for improving its verbosity
Dinesh demonstrated the configuration system in SAFA which is based on xml files – its usage and how changes could be made.
The members have decided to meet on next Saturday. The group will resume on its VB track and will look at the Tik Tak Toe game with Artificial Intelligence built into it by Saurav.
