Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Dan Zubey dzu...@openincident.com wrote: Well, I had been wondering where was the *appropriate* place to post it. Once it's cooked, I guess it'll be included in the XS config rpm :-) In fact, being in the xs config rpm solves several problems -- installation of

Re: oob: add oats_cfg.stream (trivial)

2011-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
Updated with a fix. m On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: --  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

os-builder: minor enhancements

2011-02-22 Thread martin . langhoff
I've had these minor patches in my tree for a while. Make my life easier. Hopefully of use in master. [PATCH 1/2] custom_scripts: check that scripts are executable early on [PATCH 2/2] osbuilder: skip obvious tmp and backup files ___ Devel mailing

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-02-22 Thread Dan Zubey
On 02/22/2011 07:59 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: At first reading, I'm realizing that there's many things I don't know about wwwoffle! - Current rpms are available, but not in Fedora. http://www.google.com/search?q=wwwoffle+rpm+2.9 so we'd need to review the spec and see if Fedora is

[PATCH 1/2] custom_scripts: check that scripts are executable early on

2011-02-22 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org --- .../custom_scripts/prepare.20.custom_scripts.sh| 20 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 modules/custom_scripts/prepare.20.custom_scripts.sh diff --git

[PATCH 2/2] osbuilder: skip obvious tmp and backup files

2011-02-22 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org Makes life much easier when using a development copy of OOB -- avoids running the temp files emacs creates. Based on ye olde run-parts, plus a few obvious ones. --- osbuilder.py |8 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Hello all. I am working with some teachers and students using XO 1.5 and version 10.1.3 of the software. The teachers really want to make use of a text to speech functionality. I can't seem to find out how this works. I would appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks. Gerald

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread James Cameron
The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general purpose text to speech function for the rest of the Sugar user interface, but someone else may know of one. -- James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
James, Thanks. This is very helpful. Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread forster
Chat also has text to speech it might be tapping into some common library? Tony The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general purpose text to speech function for the

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Chat also has text to speech it might be tapping into some common library? There's a remarkable aversion to looking at source code in this thread. :) Speak.activity/espeak_cmd.py: import espeak ... def speak(self, status, text): subprocess.call([espeak, -w, wavpath,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:13:22PM +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Chat also has text to speech it might be tapping into some common library? Yes. Speak uses espeak via command line, as Chris pointed out. I found that in the source too. I didn't find anything in Chat. In 10.1.3, apart

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Read Ebooks activity have text to speech capabilities, and i am adding this to Read activity too. Can you describe what you and your teachers need? Gonzalo On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all. I am working with some teachers and students

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: espeak hello --stdout | aplay mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Mikus, Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: espeak hello --stdout | aplay mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Gonzalzo, Thanks for your help with this. I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read Ebooks. What the teachers were asking for was for the ability to have text read in Browse and Write. The use case would be highlighting text and then taking some action which results in

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread forster
Thank Mikus. Thats fantastic. Turtle Art now has text to speech http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2011/02/turtle-art-text-to-speech.html Tony Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: espeak hello --stdout | aplay mikus