Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma

Posted Sep 3, 2015 21:14 UTC (Thu) by riddochc (guest, #43)
Parent article: Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma

This may not be the best forum, but I haven't found a better one, so here goes.

I have extensive experience with linux and computational linguistics. I want to be working on improving the state of accessibility software for linux, including text-to-speech, speech recognition, alternative I/O mechanisms, and so forth. I want to continue to be able to pay for rent and food while doing so. I don't want to be working on random useless websites any more.

If you know who I should talk to about getting funding to spend my time doing this, please contact me. evqqbpup@tznvy.pbz

Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma

Posted Sep 4, 2015 10:35 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

Have you considered a crowdfunding campaign? Try to find a realistic, well-defined goal and ask the Internet if they are interested. You could ask the accessibility people at major projects (Gnome, KDE) and distributions (Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo seem to have the most organized efforts) for hints on the most pressing needs.

Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma

Posted Sep 7, 2015 10:42 UTC (Mon) by Shugyousha (subscriber, #93672) [Link]

I would definitely be willing to donate to a crowdfounding compaign for a functioning OpenSource solution and I don't think I would be the only one.

It would be important to properly market the campaign. Putting links here and on r/linux would most likely not be enough but it would be a start...

Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma

Posted Sep 7, 2015 18:20 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Joey Hess did a successful Kickstarter for git-annex[1] development and also did a campaign[2] for further development. Now it seems the NSF and DataLad are funding[3] git-annex development. Something with more wide-spread interest such as good TTS could certainly get bootstrapped in a similar way.

[1]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assi...
[2]https://campaign.joeyh.name/
[3]https://git-annex.branchable.com/thanks/

Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma

Posted Sep 8, 2015 2:17 UTC (Tue) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

Maybe something like this:

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027655

Cry