Thread: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo5, Harmattan and Sailfish OS
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mick3_de is offline mick3_de
2012-12-06 , 22:05
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Originally Posted by taixzo View Post
I was afraid they might. The main reason I copied Apple's UI was because I didn't want to take the time to come up with a nice-looking design myself, but I suppose it's possible Apple might notice this some day, so it is probably a good idea to redesign it. Any ideas on design? I'm better at functionality than graphic design.
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.
 

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