Hello, What's this, double [REBOL] again in the list?
On 13-Oct-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> P.S. for Amiga REBOLs: thinking of SER: reminded me of SPEAK: (not so
>> impressive as it was 10 years ago, but REBOL could tell us when new mail
>> arrives or a web page is changed -- I know, it's platform specific)
>
> Daniele,
>
> Here is a more direct way to do what you want:
>
> s: open/direct/binary %/ser
> append s reduce ["ATZ" CRLF]
Any further ideas on getting the "OK" or any other unspecified length
response back from the modem without Rebol hanging indefinately?
> Also, about the SPEAK: device, I have already used REBOL to do many things
> with this. I have the Carnegie-Mellon pronunciation dictionary floating
> around on my hard drive here. The original plan was to convert the
> dictionary to a REBOL HASH block and then lookup words and get the correct
> pronunciations for them instead of using the translator.library. I wrote
I've tried the later replacements for the speech system a little bit, but
was never satisfied with the results. The original from OS1.3 seemed more
understandable (maybe I didn't do enough to get the later ones sounding
good). Any specific tips Bo (including accents)?
> some code on Blitz Basic a while back that bypassed the translator.library
> allowing one to send phonemes directly to the narrator.device, but
> unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on 68060-based machines.
>
> The real use I had for this was so my wife could take one of the remote
> controls sitting around the house and query the computer to download email
> and read them to her while she was doing other things (like cooking,
> cleaning, taking care of the kids, giving me a back rub ;) ) The remote
> control thingy isn't so hard as there are devices which can be hooked up
> to Amigas so they can be controlled with any remote control.
>
> Well, this is barely riding the line of being on-topic, but since the
> topic was brought up :)
Nice sounding idea, and sounds doable.
Elliott
