[mythtv] Video Conferencing Plugin

[Paul Volkaerts]

> Which TTS engine are you using? Festival? If you're going that
> far, have you
> thought of connecting it to Sphinx (http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/)
> to allow voice control? If you're interested, I can share code
> with you for
> tieing Sphinx-2 to SIP streams.

Yes it is Festival.  Works quite well and can speak most programme names and
even channel signatures pretty well. Don't think speech control hits high on
my personal agenda and to be honest I want to stop adding features in and
work on stability. My main second-phase is going to be support for Service
Providers so you can phone into it from the PSTN.


> It would be nice, for video calls, to be able to play an "outgoing video
> message" and allow an incoming video message to be recorded.
>
> Can video conversations be archived? My grandmother is 86, lives on the
> Other Coast, and just loves the WebTV box I bought her ~ 5 years ago. I'm
> going to add a SIP-based video camera to her setup soon so we can video
> conference, and would love to be able to archive our calls for myself and
> (not too long from now) my kids to view at a later date.

I agree. Recording of calls - voice and video - should be pretty easy and it
is on my todo list but as I said above, stability is my main concern at the
moment. Video answer-phones I did consider, but I ended up deciding VXML was
the best way to go to give most flexibility, so I will have to work out how
to extend VXML to handle video.


Paul