GSoC-2013: Idea for GNOME

Hi! I'm currently a student in India, and am interested in participating in
GSoC-2013. I had this idea for my project:

I'd like to work on a speech-integration system for GNOME

I know about GnomeVoiceControl, which was also created as a GSoC idea and
contains some basic voice control functionality like opening/closing
'epiphany' or 'evolution', certain keypresses, window maximise/minimise
options, but is limited to those and hasn't been developed further. The
code suggests some features which were planned but not implemented, and can
only work for pre-programmed software packages (i.e. it can open
'epiphany', but if epiphany is not present, it won't look for some other
installed web browser). The idea has a lot of potential to be developed
further.

I'd like to add the following features to the package:

   - New commands: (i) The ability to control the mouse pointer using a
   grid system where the screen is divided into a grid, and the user speaks
   the cell number to move the pointer to that grid; (ii) 'Search', to present
   the search window; (iii) Web browser integration, commands for page
   navigation; (iv) e-mail client integration
   - Usage of a newer version of speech recognition engine CMUSphinx or
   Julian for the backend,
   - Look for relevant available packages, and open one from those,
   - A GUI for user convenience,
   - A speech-to-text mode,
   - "Window-Awareness": Only listen for relevant commands that apply to a
   window

I'd love to hear your inputs.

Thanks.
Varad

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