On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
> I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on
> adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various
> additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out
> what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here:
>
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.21-18.33.56.pdf
Thanks for your efforts!
just minor cleanups you can consider to make code less verbose and
easily understandable(perhaps), see attached speech.py
> I'm going to start working on code samples for a Collaboration chapter
> next, and I want to do a chapter on debugging Sugar Activities after
> that. I think Walter had developed some code to let you run Sugar
> Activities outside of the Sugar environment and that would be a good
> fit for the debugging chapter. For collaboration I'm going to try to
> put together a sort of half-finished game called "Battle Royale Tic
> Tac Toe". I'll also write about file sharing as used by Read Etexts.
>
> Once I have this material added I think I'll have enough to make it
> worth putting on the front page of the site. That won't mean it's
> finished, but enough of it will be that the book could be considered
> complete.
>
> I welcome collaborators as well as editors on this. There are many
> topics you could put in a book like this that I'm not qualified to
> write.
>
> I'm up to 87 pages now.
>
> James Simmons
>
--
Aleksey
import gst
voice = 'default'
pitch = 0
rate = -20
highlight_cb = None
def _create_pipe():
pipeline = 'espeak name=source ! autoaudiosink'
pipe = gst.parse_launch(pipeline)
def stop_cb(bus, message):
pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
def mark_cb(bus, message):
if message.structure.get_name() == 'espeak-mark':
mark = message.structure['mark']
highlight_cb(int(mark))
bus = pipe.get_bus()
bus.add_signal_watch()
bus.connect('message::eos', stop_cb)
bus.connect('message::error', stop_cb)
bus.connect('message::element', mark_cb)
return (pipe.get_by_name('source'), pipe)
def _speech(source, pipe, words):
source.props.pitch = pitch
source.props.rate = rate
source.props.voice = voice
source.props.text = words;
pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
info_source, info_pipe = _create_pipe()
play_source, play_pipe = _create_pipe()
# track for marks
play_source.props.track = 2
def voices():
return info_source.props.voices
def say(words):
_speech(info_source, info_pipe, words)
print words
def play(words):
_speech(play_source, play_pipe, words)
def is_stopped():
for i in play_pipe.get_state():
if isinstance(i, gst.State) and i == gst.STATE_NULL:
return True
return False
def stop():
play_pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
def is_paused():
for i in play_pipe.get_state():
if isinstance(i, gst.State) and i == gst.STATE_PAUSED:
return True
return False
def pause():
play_pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PAUSED)
def rate_up():
global rate
rate = min(99, rate + 10)
def rate_down():
global rate
rate = max(-99, rate - 10)
def pitch_up():
global pitch
pitch = min(99, pitch + 10)
def pitch_down():
global pitch
pitch = max(-99, pitch - 10)
def prepare_highlighting(label_text):
i = 0
j = 0
word_begin = 0
word_end = 0
current_word = 0
word_tuples = []
omitted = [' ', '\n', u'\r', '_', '[', '{', ']', '}', '|', '<',\
'>', '*', '+', '/', '\\' ]
omitted_chars = set(omitted)
while i < len(label_text):
if label_text[i] not in omitted_chars:
word_begin = i
j = i
while j < len(label_text) and label_text[j] not in omitted_chars:
j = j + 1
word_end = j
i = j
word_t = (word_begin, word_end, label_text[word_begin: word_end].strip())
if word_t[2] != u'\r':
word_tuples.append(word_t)
i = i + 1
return word_tuples
def add_word_marks(word_tuples):
"Adds a mark between each word of text."
i = 0
marked_up_text = '<speak> '
while i < len(word_tuples):
word_t = word_tuples[i]
marked_up_text = marked_up_text + '<mark name="' + str(i) + '"/>' + word_t[2]
i = i + 1
return marked_up_text + '</speak>'
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