rhdunn/cainteoir-gtk — Issue #16: investigate aligning Cainteoir Gtk with the Gnome3 designs
Author: rhdunn
Created: 2011-11-26 00:21:24+00:00
State: open

There are some very nice designs for applications in Gnome 3 (http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/new-updated-gnome-application-designs.html). Of particular relevance is the album playback (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UhRyc_I-Nxw/TrwXEEv0sGI/AAAAAAAAGuw/5kB5CLSw1vU/music-album-playback.png).

Of interest is that the Cainteoir Text-to-Speech UI falls under several different use cases:
1. music/media player -- listen to and record documents.
2. document viewer -- view the document being read, including highlighting the current word being read; when not reading this is a traditional document viewer/text editor paradigm.
3. text editor -- edit the document/text in the document view; paste text from the clipboard.
4. view/manage the document library.
5. view/modify the voices -- including setting preferred voices for a given language.
6. view/edit dictionaries/words -- including per-language custom user dictionaries, as well as a phoneme entry UI (IPA, SAMPA, ...).
7. view/edit audio transcriptions -- audio + text + narrow/broad phonetic transcription + part of speech annotations + stress/prosody annotations.
8. voice editor -- view and edit voices, testing how different phonemes sound.

These all need to interact seamlessly with each other in a consistent, professional, modern UI that fits into the Gnome (and KDE) environments. It also needs to be useable and discoverable for new users.