User:Sebastian Berlin (WMSE)/Tmp

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Over the last few years WMSE has been developing Wikispeech, a tool that would allow readers of the Wikimedia projects to also be listeners. Using open text-to-speech software we have developed an extension for MediaWiki that reads articles out loud. We also started work on a tool for collecting speech data, since we noticed a lack of this in open text-to-speech solutions. Now we have started testing the text-to-speech tool. We had to make some last minute adaptions to get it to run on WP, but it is enough for initial testing. Going forward our goal is to improve and expand the text-to-speech tool. We also plan to finish development of the speech data collector and to integrate it with the Wikimedia projects.