Nice hardware! Will you be using a separate mic, or the built in mics on the Zoom? Either way, you'll probably want some sort of wind or pop screen as well, so people aren't breathing into the mic as you interview them.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 6:08 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Hpr mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Hpr digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Error and comment (Jeroen Baten) > 2. By request (Jeroen Baten) > 3. Re: By request (Yannick) > 4. Re: By request (Jeroen Baten) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:05:37 +0200 > From: Jeroen Baten <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hpr] Error and comment > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Mike, > > Being the maker of this podcast I feel a response is in order. > > As stated in the podcast I am not an expert on speech synthesis. > > Also as stated in the podcast I was only evaluating programs with regard > to the HPR intro texts. > > Having a visually impaired close friend as well as my own daughter (45%) > I feel very sorry that I seem to have upset you. > > Please accept my apologies. > > regards, > > Jeroen Baten > > On 16-04-19 03:10, Mike Ray wrote: > > I got an error when I tried to post a comment about the latest podcast > > about TTS. > > > > I don't have the error code now as I pasted it into an email to admin > > and the email bounced. > > > > I suspect it was because my comment was too long, here it is: > > > > > > Condescending and sarcastic. > > > > Oh isn't text-to-speech such a laugh? > > > > I get really, really annoyed when people criticise eSpeak. > > > > Anybody who complains about it sounding robotic obviously was not around > > thirty years ago. > > > > eSpeak's author, Jonathan Duddington, in my humble opinion, deserves a > > Nobel prize. > > > > He has probably done more for blind and visually impaired computer > > users, like me, all over the world, than any other individual or > > organisation. > > > > In fact it is hard to name any single person who has had such an impact > > on any group of users, apart perhaps from Linus Torvalds and Richard > > Stallman. > > > > 1. It is Open Source. > > 2. It is tiny, the memory footprint is small. > > 3. It is snappy and can speak really fast, which is what we (blind > > people) use when we get used to it, speeds that would make your hair > curl. > > 4. It probably has more language support than any other free and Open > > Source synthesiser. > > 5. It can run in a mode where it can return rendered speech, in the form > > of PCM, to a calling program, so it can be used in other programs. I > > don't think any other synth can do this. > > 6. It can even return phonemes, a mode which I have used more than once > > to provide a kind of 'fuzzy search' in a database. > > > > I regularly write and maintain library code, and application code, in C, > > C++ and/or Python, as well as Perl, and many of these code libraries > > have in excess of 100k lines. > > > > Including, incidentally, a library which used a combination of eSpeak > > and OMX to render TTS directly on the GPU of a Raspberry Pi when 'they' > > broke the ALSA driver on the Pi, which made the speech stutter and crash > > the kernel, and refused to fix it for about four years. > > > > If I spent all my time bitching about how robotic eSpeak is I would > > never get any work done. > > > > How much time do you spend when you should be writing code, worrying > > about your wallpaper or the colour of your screen's background? > > > > Or do you just not notice it after a while? > > > > Well, after spending years writing code when I can't even see the Sun > > when I stare directly at it, I can tell you I never notice what eSpeak > > sounds like. > > > > I would probably be equally at home working with flite, festival, or > > svox pico (which you missed). > > > > In addition, eSpeak is in use in NVDA, the free and Open Source Windows > > screen reader which is currently giving the multi-hundreds of pounds > > commercial offerings a real problem, and providing cash-strapped blind > > users a chance. Although now the Windows Narrator is catching up, I > > still prefer NVDA and eSpeak. > > > > MaryTTS is bloated. There was some excitement around it a few years > > ago, but it has more or less faded away in the minds of the blind and VI > > community, since it is so bloated and, as far as I know, nobody has ever > > made a successful screen reader from it. > > > > Even if there was one, it would probably make a Raspberry Pi choke. > > Whereas eSpeak runs snappily and happily on a 256k Raspberry Pi > first-gen. > > > > The 'holy trinity' of the Linux GUI, as far as blind and VI users are > > concerned, is: > > > > 1. Orca, the GTK screen reader, written in Python, and a work of art. > > 2. speech-dispatcher, written in C, a TTS 'server' program which Orca > > connects to to send text and get speech from it. > > 3. eSpeak, although there are speech-dispatcher modules also for flite > > and festival, eSpeak is the best one IMHO. > > > > In the console: > > > > 1. SpeakUp, kernel modules including speakup and speakup_soft which make > > a console mode screen reader. > > 2. espeakup, the SpeakUp to eSpeak connector. > > 3. eSpeak. > > > > eSpeak is gold dust. > > > > > > > > > -- > Jeroen Baten | EMAIL : [email protected] > ____ _ __ | web : www.i2rs.nl > | )|_)(_ | tel : +31 (0)648519096 > _|_/_| \__) | Frisolaan 16, 4101 JK, Culemborg, the > Netherlands > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: pEpkey.asc > Type: application/pgp-keys > Size: 2448 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/attachments/20190416/c25a0e85/attachment-0001.bin > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:19:48 +0200 > From: Jeroen Baten <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Hpr] By request > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > When I told Ken that I had an expensive weekend buying all kinds of > podcast stuff to do interviews at upcoming events he suggested to share > pictures here. > > So, here goes. > > > https://wetransfer.com/downloads/00e6f5149d5a51f1528737a4478517ed20190416173113/8cd364825230402ccdfec78abb96945220190416173113/07c2da > > Regards, > > Jeroen > > -- > Jeroen Baten | EMAIL : [email protected] > ____ _ __ | web : www.i2rs.nl > | )|_)(_ | tel : +31 (0)648519096 > _|_/_| \__) | Frisolaan 16, 4101 JK, Culemborg, the > Netherlands > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/attachments/20190416/f4265870/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:17:53 +0200 > From: Yannick <[email protected]> > To: Jeroen Baten <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hpr] By request > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Ha ! Now you owe Ken at least two episodes : one review of this gear and > at least one interview ! ? > > Yannick > > Envoy? de mon iPhone > > > Le 16 avr. 2019 ? 22:19, Jeroen Baten <[email protected]> a ?crit : > > > > Hi, > > > > When I told Ken that I had an expensive weekend buying all kinds of > podcast stuff to do interviews at upcoming events he suggested to share > pictures here. > > > > So, here goes. > > > > > https://wetransfer.com/downloads/00e6f5149d5a51f1528737a4478517ed20190416173113/8cd364825230402ccdfec78abb96945220190416173113/07c2da > > > > Regards, > > > > Jeroen > > > > -- > > Jeroen Baten | EMAIL : [email protected] > > ____ _ __ | web : www.i2rs.nl > > | )|_)(_ | tel : +31 (0)648519096 > > _|_/_| \__) | Frisolaan 16, 4101 JK, Culemborg, the > Netherlands > > _______________________________________________ > > Hpr mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/attachments/20190417/70e39dcf/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:05:57 +0200 > From: Jeroen Baten <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hpr] By request > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > And when it all comes together.... > > Thanks to the tip from Nigel this picture has been stripped from EXIF > GPS data. > > Greets, Jeroen > > On 16-04-19 22:19, Jeroen Baten wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > When I told Ken that I had an expensive weekend buying all kinds of > > podcast stuff to do interviews at upcoming events he suggested to > > share pictures here. > > > > So, here goes. > > > > > https://wetransfer.com/downloads/00e6f5149d5a51f1528737a4478517ed20190416173113/8cd364825230402ccdfec78abb96945220190416173113/07c2da > > > > Regards, > > > > Jeroen > > > > -- > > Jeroen Baten | EMAIL : [email protected] > > ____ _ __ | web : www.i2rs.nl > > | )|_)(_ | tel : +31 (0)648519096 > > _|_/_| \__) | Frisolaan 16, 4101 JK, Culemborg, the > Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Hpr mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > > -- > Jeroen Baten | EMAIL : [email protected] > ____ _ __ | web : www.i2rs.nl > | )|_)(_ | tel : +31 (0)648519096 > _|_/_| \__) | Frisolaan 16, 4101 JK, Culemborg, the > Netherlands > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/attachments/20190417/ec273bcc/attachment.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: photo_2019-04-17_14-55-11.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 93762 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/attachments/20190417/ec273bcc/attachment.jpg > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: pEpkey.asc > Type: application/pgp-keys > Size: 2448 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/attachments/20190417/ec273bcc/attachment.bin > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Hpr Digest, Vol 127, Issue 22 > ************************************ >
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