Re: [blfs-support] audio libraries
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 10:44 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: LM wrote: There was a thread that mentioned audio libraries and the possibility of documenting some of it to a wiki in December. Ran across this link mentioned at osnews.com: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguinswf/files/penguinswf/linuxaudio.png The graphic shows some of the interactions between various sound libraries. It doesn't list all of them, but thought it looked helpful for anyone trying to figure out how some of the audio libraries interact and where dependencies might occur. That's an interesting graphic. I do have a little problem with it though. It has a title Linux Audio Output Methods but then add things like libao which is really only a library used by several other audio programs. In the case of BLFS, only vorbistools and cdrdao. Being from 2007, it's also somewhat outdated - both ESD and aRts are pretty much irrelevant these days, and there's no mention of KDE's Phonon. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[blfs-support] Speech Dispatcher in BLFS?
Hello, I was wondering if anybody would care to philosophize on whether the Speech Dispatcher warrants some treatment in the BLFS book. I see FreeTTS-1.2.2 alludes to Flite - Festival and Orca-3.6.3 to Speech Dispatcher, so the basics would be there. Or, maybe not. -- Some more or less valuable background on my interest in the subject. First off, as a disclaimer, I'm not much interested in speech recognition nor synthesis (I was once into DECtalk - see Google, Stephen Hawking, etc.). HOWEVER, I've become keenly interested in Speech Dispatcher for a couple of reasons. 1. Chrome is increasingly heavy on Speech, and being well aware of the old saying, As Goes Google, So Goes the Nation, that got my full attention (note, the nature of the Nation is not specified - could be Egypt, for example, or any other area). Here in the video, an example of Google's new Speech capabilities shows how a Linux programmer could E-mail dad, there are no more excuses for his dad not sending him more money more often; all that pleading without using the keyboard (nor Skype): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=qRolXPWqCSo#! 2. I've been in the habit of compiling chrome from sources every week or so (in practical terms that means every thousand builds or so: for example, chrome was at 179019 on Jan. 27; today I've compiled 180156). To compile at all, chrome badly needs some speech software, libspeechd-dev, including the Speech Dispatcher (with its so-called libspeechd.h file) residing somewhere in some Ubuntu and/or Debian database and which require complicated and tiresome acrobatics to extract and process. Thanks, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Speech Dispatcher in BLFS?
alex lupu wrote these words on 02/01/13 17:53 CST: Hello, I was wondering if anybody would care to philosophize on whether the Speech Dispatcher warrants some treatment in the BLFS book. I see FreeTTS-1.2.2 alludes to Flite - Festival and Orca-3.6.3 to Speech Dispatcher, so the basics would be there. I put the FreeTTS package into the BLFS book a long time ago. At the time, there was a sight-impaired reader of the BLFS book who asked if there was anything that could be done to assist her with 'reading' the book. It was for that reason I put FreeTTS in the book. Flite and Festival might be better options, I do not know. Flight builds easily, but I have not tested it. I would like to work with you, but not because of whatever you said about so goes Google, goes If there was a 'reader' who could expand on the benefits that Speech Dispatcher provides, or if you could provide a bit more detail about your quest, I would be happy to work on this project. I have personal reasons for wanting to help sight-impaired people. Please provide some background that expands on your original post other than because the Chrome browser is increasingly heavy on speech. I could care less about the Chrome browser. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 17:57:00 up 58 days, 3:56, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.04 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Speech Dispatcher in BLFS?
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/01/13 18:07 CST: I could care less about the Chrome browser. That should be 'I could *not* care less about the Chrome browser'. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 18:12:00 up 58 days, 4:11, 1 user, load average: 1.41, 1.25, 0.74 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[blfs-support] Speech Dispatcher in BLFS?
Randy McMurchy wrote I couldn't care less about the Chrome browser Hi Randy: You'll live to regret these reckless words. Soon :) I have personal reasons for wanting to help sight-impaired people. That's a very noble act. Speaking of that, my understanding is that's why Klaus put together A.D.R.I.A.N.E. in Knoppix (for his wife). Hope against hope. Seems you're not easily swayed by ugly financial reasons like Google crashing everything in its path (so you join it to avoid certain harm). How about this as another reason: Ubuntu and Debian do it (Speech Dispatcher)? I.e., keeping up with the Joneses BTW, maybe I didn't convey it properly, my life was pretty bearable until chrome compilation started requiring (and silently no less, so to speak:) the presence of the Speech Dispatcher. Disabling chrome's speech component has become too onerous lately. Thanks for your comments, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
