The initial Getting Started and User Guide documentation is now published (but incomplete / unpolished). So, it is now time to take a short while to concentrate on pulling together the marketing side of the project.
As stated:
"The aim of Project metalmouth is to develop a fully functioned (although initially basic) open source voice browser - which sits inside the Chrome browser as an extension. The ambition is to give users, who want to use this extension, the best possible user experience when interacting with the spoken web."
In order to reach anywhere near this ambition it is the end users who must now decide on what they want. The beta release which is now published has always been intended as a 'straw man' - providing something real for people so that they can state what they like and don't like. In this way the extension can be burned down and built back up to more accurately fulfil their needs.
Getting as many relevant end users as possible to feedback on the project is the key, and the focus of the current activity. Where a relevant end user of this project might be:
"Anyone, from any Country, who for one reason or another finds it necessary to have content spoken out to them to ensure their full interaction (via the Chrome browser) with the web".
As always, if you are using the extension or just like the intensions behind the project (I already like you and think your wonderful) I would ask you to get involved in the project (especially user testing, feature requests, etc...) - otherwise, maybe just providing a link to the project website (http://code.google.com/p/metalmouth/) so that others may more easily find it.
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