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taixzo	2012-12-06 , 22:33
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Originally Posted by mick3_de

I personally would vote for the startrek communicator badge as icon symbol but maybe you will run also in trouble with this.

For the conversation view I would rather use different colors for the voice input and for Saera's answers to make them better distinguishable. Or the messages could have prefixes as "Me:" and "Saera:" or even avatar/profile pics if you could train Saera to understand different speakers or have several voices in the future.

Maybe there exists already a conversation component in Qt/QML
you can reuse?

Regarding the saera voice have you tried flite for speech output? There was a N900 version some time ago. I think it sounds more natural than espeak as it's based on concatenation instead of formant synthesis.

Best, M.

I've been avoiding QML so far, as it requires even more of a complete restructure of the app than plain QT, but I realize that it won't really run natively on the N9 without it - so that's what I'm concentrating on now. I'm probably going to use two colors for the user and for Saera, and make them themeable.

I downloaded flite and gave it a try. On some words it is much better than espeak, but it seems to stumble over a lot of words that espeak has no problem with (suck as "Tokyo" and most numbers), and I think part of the problem is that it's sort of in the uncanny valley - because it's more human-like, it's flaws are more apparent. There is no flite package for the N9 as far as I can find, so since espeak is working on both platforms I'm considering that a low priority.

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taixzo	2012-12-14 , 05:36
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Originally Posted by mick3_de

FYI, Apple got a "design patent" for the Siri icon/button.

How do people like this one:

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Originally Posted by taixzo

How do people like this one:

Amusing. Innovative. You might as well add sphinx somewhere, but too many details would not be comfortable to look at. Voting 'yes'.

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palikao	2012-12-24 , 13:43
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Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Amusing. Innovative. You might as well add sphinx somewhere, but too many details would not be comfortable to look at. Voting 'yes'.

It's interesting.. BUT I think it's too complex.. need more semplicity, less details, more cleanless!

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	Rabah_vip	2012-12-26 , 11:45
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hi taixzo. 2012 will finish soon

.. So we well get saera for n9 after or before ?
thank you for your hard work but its interesting to get it very soon

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taixzo	2012-12-29 , 23:20
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Originally Posted by Rabah_vip

hi taixzo. 2012 will finish soon .. So we well get saera for n9 after or before ?
thank you for your hard work but its interesting to get it very soon

I still intend to release the N9 version by New Year's Eve. It is pretty much working, but there are a few things I want to fix first.

Some screenshots:

And a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVL14p99MHQ

Colors are just a placeholder right now.

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taixzo	2012-12-30 , 04:15
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And a little Google Now-like functionality: the ability to retrieve arbitrary data and answer questions.

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taixzo	2012-12-30 , 07:33
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the N9 build is here!

This is still a first build, there are bugs to be worked out with recognition accuracy, etc. Also, it might depend on packages that are not in the Nokia repo; if so, please let me know and I'll make a list of them.

And a new theme in progress:

Download:
saera_0.0.1_armel.deb

Happy New Year!

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thedead1440	2012-12-30 , 08:00
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taixzo,

The log of the dependencies missing shows the following are required from you:

pocketsphinx-utils
pocketsphinx-hmm-en-hub4wsj
pocketsphinx-lm-en-hub4
gstreamer0.10-pocketsphinx
python-gst0.10

Basically only python-beautifulsoup is available from the repo while python-gst0.10 is available but can't be downloaded maybe due to the repo being down...