[Libreoffice] GSoC intended student

Cedric Bosdonnat cedric.bosdonnat.ooo at free.fr
Mon Mar 28 07:36:55 PDT 2011


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 at 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 at 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



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