Requirements

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[edit] Requirements Overview

After analyzing the user requirements and surveying various VOCA software available, we decided to design the HelpMeSpeak software as follows. Of utmost importance to us was to create a system using existing Open Source technologies, thereby making our software Open Source as well. In addition, the software used existing technologies and built upon them to implement a web-based text-to-speech tool. Therefore, most school or home-based systems should be able to accommodate the HelpMeSpeak software, and any additional required software can be downloaded at no cost. The HelpMeSpeak installation package should be simple to use and setup.

[edit] System Requirements (Windows based)

Operating System	Windows XP (hasn’t been tested yet on other systems)
Sound Device	Standard speakers and sound card
Speech Engine	Microsoft SAPI v 4.0 (freely available)
Default Voice	Depends on your system. Voices are available for free download
Web Server	We used WAMP Server with Apache (free), but any other free web server with MySQL and PHP5 support can be used.
Database	MySQL (free, comes with WAMP)
Web-based DBMS	phpMyAdmin (free, comes with WAMP)
Scripting Languages	php, Javascript, AJAX (free, comes with WAMP)
Images	Get images from open clipart library www.openclipart.org, www.flickr.com and digital photos from around the house/school.

[edit] System Requirements (Linux based)

Operating System	Linux Fedora Core 6.0 (hasn’t been tested yet on other systems)
Sound Device	/dev/dsp
Speech Engine	Festival
Default Voice	Depends on your system. Voices are available for free download
Web Server	Apache
Database	MySQL
Web-based DBMS	phpMyAdmin
Scripting Languages	php, Javascript, AJAX
Images	open clipart library www.openclipart.org and digital photos from around the house/school.