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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
A major, glamorous project that no one seems to be working on is text-to-speech. There is flite, but there should be some way of reading a text document, with a decent voice. I think this is important enough that someone at Nokia should be working on it -- I'm sure that Apple is working on an equivalent project. In many quarters there seems to be a misconception that this sort of thing is for blind people. I'm not blind; I just like to have my computer read to me. To do this now, I have to run Windows. If I had a Mac, I could run that. There is no decent reader in Linux (IMHO), which is where I spend most of my time.
Try Festival? Don't know if it's a decent reader IYHO or not...
It's available on the tablets now, courtesy of PB.

To me, an even more major and glamorous project is possible, but nobody's trying yet: Speech-to-text. At least in the limited-vocabularity sense of understanding voice commands, this should be doable in terms of processing power. But nothing's really been done yet. (I know, I know, that means I should get busy, doesn't it? )