something that not a lot of people know is that if you have X display access with enlightenment just about everything is scriptable from outside of the window manager. try opening up a terminal window inside of enlightenment and typing 'eesh'.
it won't say anything outright, but you can type 'help' and get a list of commands that you can use. not EVERYTHING is documented, but 95% of the commands are documented in here appropriately. This was one of the things I was really interested in working on in E. There may or may not be a couple of sample scripts that use this interface available in the distribution package, but there is a perl module for it (Pesh I think) and I did write a few sample scripts I will put up on my website here: http://mandrake.net/downloads/e-scripts/.
You can script, of course, in the scripting language of your choice (I've never been a big fan of lisp). The script examples aren't terribly pretty but very easy to write.
my dell inspiron laptops both work flawlessly, and I recommend them highly. especially since they can do 1600x1200 and have a 32mb gf2go card in them... I have never had any problems with pcmcia that you have had. *shrug*
Actually, I thought they were all lpd, and all of that was done by a guy named Ben Woodard, who left cisco to work at VA Linux Systems working on the HP printing stuff for VA. Of course, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.
First, I would recommend taking a look at blackbox - it's lightweight enough to run on quite a few lower-end machines nicely. Or maybe ion, which is decent for some types of work-related activities.
And then I would say that a lot of larger desktop environments (gnome/kde/enlightenment/etc) can probably be configured to run slower systems. most of the development work on E (before 0.14), for example, was done on a p120 and a p133. So I wouldn't completely discount these systems if you're used to them - you can probably make them run happily by tweaking configurations in them. Of course, you may not be interested in that, in which case I'd stick with something like ion or blackbox.
Gotuit Video, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gotuit Media, Corp. Both companies were founded by Logan, who is also the founder of MicroTouch Systems, Inc. (MTSI) a $160 million manufacturer of touch screen systems. He was a board member of Andover.Net, parent company of famed tech community Slashdot and a leader in the Open Source movement, which was recently sold to VA Linux.
Gotuit's prominent board of advisors includes Harvard Law School Professor Terry Fisher, a leading authority on Internet and copyright law; Joel Harrison, cofounder of the Quantum Corporation; Mark Pascarella, EVP of The Topol Group LLC; Brian Zisk, cofounder of the Future of Music Coalition and Green Witch Internet Radio; and Kevin Liga, CTO of interactive TV company, ACTV.
Also, building a voice from speakers who you do not control the coverage on (particularly the mention of reviving dead actors, etc) would be problematic at best. You could not get the proper coverage (nor the quality) to really do anything useful. --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
AT&T's synthesis system actually contains dinburgh University's Festival Speech Synthesis System (http://festvox.org/festival), Although the synthesis technique in NextGen is not in Festival (as its proprietary). However there is work from Carnegie Mellon, by Kevin Lenzo and Alan Black (http://www.festvox.org) that provides all the tools (for free) that allow you to build your own voice in Festival. For simple domains the tools really work well, and easily capture the quality of the original speaker, for a whole general voice that can say anything it is a *lot* of work, but is possible from the tools. This is what we are doing in our company Cepstral (http://www.cepstral.com)
Actually there is even and example of Hemos himself, doing a talking clock on http://www.festvox.org/ldom/ldom_time.html --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
a few people in here so far have been comparing Festival to AT&T NextGen saying that NextGen sounds better, etc. I find that funny, especially considering that NextGen is built on top of festival, and festival (the open source speech synthesizer) can be made to sound just as good or better. --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
but there are different voices for festival, some of which sound quite fine.
http://mandrake.net/demo_voice.wav
produced with festival
http://mandrake.net/demo_2.wav
produced with festival --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
but dunkin donuts sucks. at least compare vs krispy kreme. --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
only if they still let you download all the copyrighted songs:) sure, 5 bucks a month is a lot less than I spend on buying cds every month that I only burn. (especially now that I have an mp3 player in my car) --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
remember, you can buy indulgences if you go to his site. http://thepope.org --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
actually, if you had ever LISTENED to geeks in space, it's just some people babbling about the news that has gone on in the past week and then babbling about generally nothing. You should do some research next time.:) --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
hey man, you're welcome to pitch in to get me a house if you want to. I'm going to post some pictures that we took of the house in a couple of days, as well as scan in a magazine article about the house in question. This place is REALLY cool.
I don't know whether or not I can move here though yet. --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
what I don't understand is why mp3board.com uses Gnutella right off their front page if they are going to be suing them. This just strikes me as frivolous. But then again, in a land where a lady can sue someone because of hot coffee she spills on her own lap... --
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
if you're running enlightenment, try typing 'eesh -e "fx raindrops on"' in a terminal window. use 'eesh -e "fx raindrops off"' to turn it off:) -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
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actually it didn't remove GNOME support by default. it's just using all the buttons on the root window. you can easily change this by reading the INSTALL doc, or looking in the FAQ. I actually included a keybindings.gmc.cfg that turns the mousebutton behaviour back to the 0.15 style specifically for this reason. -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
I have zoomair wireless networking set up both at home and at work and I love it. nothing like going out to the pool to hack on a nice day. -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
it's not that the code intentionally violates software patents. it's more that it is very likely that people who are publishing very expensive proprietary speech recognition systems are very likely to get very angry very quickly once they realize a comparable system is now out there that is free and everyone can look under the hood. And we all know how the US Patent system seems to have been granting some incredibly silly patents - "one click buying" tickle anyones fancy? it's not that technology was stolen to be put out here. -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
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you know I was just thinking that to myself.
-- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
If you really want more access to xfree86, just join xfree-devel, and get yourself cvs access. The reason that the source isn't more available all the time is because of NDAs that everyone is under (so xfree86 can do things like SUPPORT YOUR VIDEO CARD) things have to be done at least behind closed doors temporarily. This way vendors don't mind helping out while the drivers are in transit. And all the documentation that's included in the source code that is still proprietary information of these companies can get removed before the source is released to the public. If you want more access to the source code, it's readily available. There is information on the xfree86 web site on getting developer access to all the code. I suggest you (And everyone else who is complaining beneath your comment) go and check there, if you really want more access to the source code. -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
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actually there are some hard and fast limits to image render sizes in imlib2. sorry to disappoint.
You can script, of course, in the scripting language of your choice (I've never been a big fan of lisp). The script examples aren't terribly pretty but very easy to write.
my dell inspiron laptops both work flawlessly, and I recommend them highly. especially since they can do 1600x1200 and have a 32mb gf2go card in them... I have never had any problems with pcmcia that you have had. *shrug*
actually about a year ago (877)CMU-PLAN was slashdotted (telephone airline searching system out of CMU)
Actually, I thought they were all lpd, and all of that was done by a guy named Ben Woodard, who left cisco to work at VA Linux Systems working on the HP printing stuff for VA. Of course, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.
First, I would recommend taking a look at blackbox - it's lightweight enough to run on quite a few lower-end machines nicely. Or maybe ion, which is decent for some types of work-related activities.
And then I would say that a lot of larger desktop environments (gnome/kde/enlightenment/etc) can probably be configured to run slower systems. most of the development work on E (before 0.14), for example, was done on a p120 and a p133. So I wouldn't completely discount these systems if you're used to them - you can probably make them run happily by tweaking configurations in them. Of course, you may not be interested in that, in which case I'd stick with something like ion or blackbox.
I would also suggest that you try out flite, which you can find at the CMU Flite page
Gotuit Video, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gotuit Media, Corp. Both companies were founded by Logan, who is also the founder of MicroTouch Systems, Inc. (MTSI) a $160 million manufacturer of touch screen systems. He was a board member of Andover.Net, parent company of famed tech community Slashdot and a leader in the Open Source movement, which was recently sold to VA Linux.
Gotuit's prominent board of advisors includes Harvard Law School Professor Terry Fisher, a leading authority on Internet and copyright law; Joel Harrison, cofounder of the Quantum Corporation; Mark Pascarella, EVP of The Topol Group LLC; Brian Zisk, cofounder of the Future of Music Coalition and Green Witch Internet Radio; and Kevin Liga, CTO of interactive TV company, ACTV.
Also, building a voice from speakers who you do not control the coverage on (particularly the mention of reviving dead actors, etc) would be problematic at best. You could not get the proper coverage (nor the quality) to really do anything useful.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
AT&T's synthesis system actually contains dinburgh University's Festival Speech Synthesis System (http://festvox.org/festival), Although the synthesis technique in NextGen is not in Festival (as its proprietary). However there is work from Carnegie Mellon, by Kevin Lenzo and Alan Black (http://www.festvox.org) that provides all the tools (for free) that allow you to build your own voice in Festival. For simple domains the tools really work well, and easily capture the quality of the original speaker, for a whole general voice that can say anything it is a *lot* of work, but is possible from the tools. This is what we are doing in our company Cepstral (http://www.cepstral.com)
Actually there is even and example of Hemos himself, doing a talking clock on http://www.festvox.org/ldom/ldom_time.html
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
a few people in here so far have been comparing Festival to AT&T NextGen saying that NextGen sounds better, etc. I find that funny, especially considering that NextGen is built on top of festival, and festival (the open source speech synthesizer) can be made to sound just as good or better.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
soon festival will have higher quality voices available freely.
see http://mandrake.net/demo_voice.wav
and http://mandrake.net/demo_2.wav
for samples.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
but there are different voices for festival, some of which sound quite fine.
http://mandrake.net/demo_voice.wav
produced with festival
http://mandrake.net/demo_2.wav
produced with festival
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
but dunkin donuts sucks. at least compare vs krispy kreme.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
only if they still let you download all the copyrighted songs :) sure, 5 bucks a month is a lot less than I spend on buying cds every month that I only burn. (especially now that I have an mp3 player in my car)
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
remember, you can buy indulgences if you go to his site. http://thepope.org
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
actually, if you had ever LISTENED to geeks in space, it's just some people babbling about the news that has gone on in the past week and then babbling about generally nothing. You should do some research next time. :)
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
hey man, you're welcome to pitch in to get me a house if you want to. I'm going to post some pictures that we took of the house in a couple of days, as well as scan in a magazine article about the house in question. This place is REALLY cool.
I don't know whether or not I can move here though yet.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
what I don't understand is why mp3board.com uses Gnutella right off their front page if they are going to be suing them. This just strikes me as frivolous. But then again, in a land where a lady can sue someone because of hot coffee she spills on her own lap...
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
if you're running enlightenment, try typing :)
'eesh -e "fx raindrops on"' in a terminal window.
use 'eesh -e "fx raindrops off"' to turn it off
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
actually it didn't remove GNOME support by default. it's just using all the buttons on the root window. you can easily change this by reading the INSTALL doc, or looking in the FAQ. I actually included a keybindings.gmc.cfg that turns the mousebutton behaviour back to the 0.15 style specifically for this reason.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
I have zoomair wireless networking set up both at home and at work and I love it. nothing like going out to the pool to hack on a nice day.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
it's not that the code intentionally violates software patents. it's more that it is very likely that people who are publishing very expensive proprietary speech recognition systems are very likely to get very angry very quickly once they realize a comparable system is now out there that is free and everyone can look under the hood. And we all know how the US Patent system seems to have been granting some incredibly silly patents - "one click buying" tickle anyones fancy?
it's not that technology was stolen to be put out here.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
you know I was just thinking that to myself.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
If you really want more access to xfree86, just join xfree-devel, and get yourself cvs access. The reason that the source isn't more available all the time is because of NDAs that everyone is under (so xfree86 can do things like SUPPORT YOUR VIDEO CARD) things have to be done at least behind closed doors temporarily. This way vendors don't mind helping out while the drivers are in transit. And all the documentation that's included in the source code that is still proprietary information of these companies can get removed before the source is released to the public. If you want more access to the source code, it's readily available. There is information on the xfree86 web site on getting developer access to all the code. I suggest you (And everyone else who is complaining beneath your comment) go and check there, if you really want more access to the source code.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)