I think most noobs including myself would need some context here:
- Is there a sample that we can check out? (I looked up for Text2Video and found this <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHX8FSJWzrU> but I think I'd rather not have any animation to save data if I was visually impaired because I fail to see the purpose of the animation in the first place)
- Which language Wikipedias have been tested on so far?
- I am yet to be convinced that VideoWiki is useful in any manner, particularly from a digital accessibility standpoint (in simple words, why one would use VideoWiki or what is the target audience for VideoWiki). It's fun to play with a platform like this but I'm still waiting to see the practical use (and I did have fun hearing to Wikipedia articles using VideoWiki)
- For something to work for Indian languages, the TTS itself should be decent enough and the application should not be data-heavy (thanks to carriers like Jio and in general drop in data charges, but we still have a long way to go). I'm sure this is something that might have occurred to others as well.
- The other and the most important aspect, again speaking from a common user's expectation, something that is intended for accessibility should be mobile-focuses, meaning it has to start from an Android app as majority (>470 mn[1] of India's Internet user population) Internet users access the Internet from their smartphones whereas most of them wouldn't have access to a computer
- Last but not the least, there is plenty of resources being spent for languages like English and anything in English, IMO would be reinventing the wheel whereas many Indian languages need support. Thankfully, Google is adding more languages though they are not always Open Source and that itself is a big issue for the Wikimedia community.