Starts a ’summer’ of code for me
Posted by hordia on April 17th, 2007
Last week I got accepted into google’s summer of code program, so I will be with this on summer… ehm s/summer/winter here… 
I’m very happy with that!
Google granted 6 students to CLAM, so it’s a big success!!! All applications are listed here.
The scope of my app may vary (or change totally! see below) because I still have to have a meeting with my mentor and adjust some details. Indeed seems that maybe could be another of my gsoc’s applications. Beyond that, of course it will be released under GPL.
ATM, it will be:
Title:Educative Vowel Synthesizer
Mentor: Pau Arumí Albó
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Abstract:The main goal of this project is to build an application that let the user to synthesizing different vowels by placing a point within the vowel triangle, and the reverse, given an input vowel from the microphone place a dot on the triangle. For example, this is useful to students who can check their pronunciation. This includes displaying the mouth position for the vowel, visualizing the spectral peaks (and identify the effect), changing the pitch and vocal track characteristics.
A teacher could limit the set of vowels to the ones used for a particular language such as Catalan or English, so that the students just see the relevant ones for the exercise. Also includes some didactict games about identify the vowels by his spectral content.
I really don’t know ATM if it’s going to change or not, but that is what the gsoc page says so far
CONFIRMED: it’s going to change, maybe something with real time sms transformations and real time voice2midi, news soon… here: “My GSoC2007 application: Real-time spectral transformations”
My mentor will be Pau Arumí Albó, one of the main developers of CLAM project and part of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). I meet him recently on irc channels and mailing lists and he seems very kind. He’s a free software enthusiastic and teachs software engineering. He also developed other free software like testfarm and MiniCppUnit and has many publications. Recently, for example, he was at LAC2007 conference with David García Garzón both showing the work: “Visual prototyping of audio applications“.
I had heard some about CLAM before this GSoC (i had played a little with it too) and indeed starting developing with was in my (long)ToDo. But i didn’t knew that they were open to new developers too, so as fast i get know about its GSoC participation (the bad thing was that was not much before the deadline) i had no doubts about try to apply. For luck, google extended the deadline a little and the time was enough to present (’at least only’) 4 app’s, but i had presented 20 (GSoC limit!) if i had enought time. That time i was thinking, researching about CLAM, imagining, reading some source code and documentation and writing proposals of course, hehehe. Seems that i overstating but is true 
I had discarded from first the idea of apply to a different organization.
My first goal was to have a good opportunity to develop to or under this framework and even I was decided to keep close to the project beyond the results. I came here to learn a lot and give my best. They gave me a warm welocome from the beginning. I wish to be able continue developing to CLAM after completing GSoC (and completing it well of course!).
Some days ago, I already introduced me to the CLAM community here and also I have become member of his planet! Great!
And last but not least i want to express all my thanks for the opportunity to the entire CLAM development group! thanks!!!
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