Re: [Libreoffice] GSoC intended student

Hi Hugo,

I'm adding the libreoffice dev mailing list in CC, please prefer this
way to communicate as others can help you too.

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 10:29 -0300, Hugo Leonardo Melo dos Santos wrote:
> I have read some bugs. I am interested to solve the bug 34413, but I do not
> know if this is solved. Furthermore, I tested the bug and the problem
> happened just when I used "show" instead of "automatic" as sad on the
> description, I used Ubuntu 10.04 32 bits. So, could I start this one?
> Another question, Do you know some tip where i can find the section on the
> source code? I will try myself, but I imagine the code is really big.

I have no clue about that precise bug... but may be someone can help you
on the list.

Regards,

> Regards
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:42:17 -0300 (BRT), Cedric Bosdonnat
> <cedric.bosdonnat.ooo@free.fr> wrote:
> > Hello Hugo,
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 14:20 -0300, Hugo Leonardo Melo dos Santos wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot for your feedback. I am very interested in contributing and
> > > it can surely be along the lines you suggest. I will then concentrate 
> > > making the LibreOffice auto-completion list persistent. Afterward I can
> > > work on the SpeechOO integration.
> >
> > Glad to know that :) I'm ccin'g Fridrich (although I forgot last time)
> > because he is the second GSoc admin for LibreOffice.
> >
> > > I will then prepare a proposal for the activities. Is it ok to send it
> > > to you before submitting? (to allow you make suggestions)
> >
> > Sure, that's a nice way to go. Don't forget that we are requiring each
> > student to fix an easy hack bug to validate the application. You can
> > read the details here:
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoc#How_to_apply
> >
> > And post the patch to the dev mailing list.
> >
> > Regards, 
> >
> > --
> > Cedric
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Hugo
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:48:19 -0300 (BRT), Cedric Bosdonnat
> > > <cedric.bosdonnat.ooo@free.fr> wrote:
> > > > Hello Hugo,
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 10:57 -0300, Hugo Leonardo Melo dos Santos
> wrote:
> > > > > A Brazilian student intended to participate in GSoC project.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks for being interested in participating in GSoc with
> > > > LibreOffice.
> > > >
> > > > >    Recently, the public resources for BP developed by the FalaBrasil
> > > > > project have been used to develop the SpeechOO, a speech-enabled
> > > > > dictation
> > > > > pad for the OpenOffice suite. It is a speech recognition extension
> > > > > that
> > > > > can
> > > > > get utterances from the Julius decoder and append it to the current
> > > > > Writer
> > > > > tool document. The current version of SpeechOO is freely available
> > > > > (code.google.com/p/speechoo/), and works on GNU/Linux systems.
> > > > >
> > > > >    The prototype was developed in the Java programming language and
> > > > >    uses
> > > > > Java Native Interface to communicate with our resources (written in
> > > C++).
> > > > >    Now my idea aims at developing a word autocompletion feature for
> > > > > SpeechOO and focus on the recognition result with low confidence
> > > measure.
> > > > > Lists with hypotheses will be composed with the highest probability
> > > > > sentences obtained during the speech recognition process. Other
> > > > > challenges
> > > > > are to find a way to store the user favorite word list persistently
> > > > > and
> > > > > show the status of recognition (if the software is waiting for the
> > > > > user
> > > > > to
> > > > > speak or not).
> > > >
> > > > Well, I would much prefer to have the word auto-completion feature on
> > > > the LibreOffice side. SpeechOO could use it if you like, but that
> would
> > > > provide the feature for others as well.
> > > >
> > > > >    Certainly, this software will be very useful and make an impact to
> > > > > people who cannot type a keyboard and those who prefer using speech
> > > > > recognition. Initially the Brazilian Portuguese will be the target
> > > > > language, but other languages can be used in future.
> > > > >
> > > > >    Can you see an opportunity to be my mentor in this project?
> > > >
> > > > I won't be able to mentor you on the SpeechOO side of things, but I
> can
> > > > mentor you for the autocompletion side on LibreOffice. I think that
> the
> > > > auto-completion should be your main goal as it can be take time for
> you
> > > > to enter the LibreOffice code. The SpeechOO integration would be a
> nice
> > > > cherry on the cake if you could do it in the summer... but nothing we
> > > > could evaluated on from the LibreOffice mentoring side.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,

-- 
Cédric Bosdonnat
LibreOffice hacker
http://documentfoundation.org
OOo Eclipse Integration developer
http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr