This kind of speech, um, yeah, is a - a world away, you know what I mean, from how most users speak to dictation software, command-and-control, etc.
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ is the main source of speech corpora that I know about. You have to pay and possibly be a member (depending on the corpus you want I think). The catalog covers all kinds of speech.
Another source is ELRA http://catalog.elra.info/, but their corpora are a little pricey!
I remember reading a newsgroup about 10 years ago (on my vt100!), where people were discussing the best position on the keyboard for the Caps Lock key.
I think the final consensus was that the best location would be the underside of the keyboard.
I have a similar question about creating binaries that run on different versions of the same distribution, say, Redhat Linux/Fedora Core.
I have been building binaries on Redhat7.2 which seem to work OK on Fedora Core 3 (with compat-libstdc++, except there have been some problems when exceptions are thrown - anyone know anything about this?) - I assume they work OK on distributions in between too.
Does anyone know how to build binaries on newer distributions that run on older ones, especially ones that use C++. Stuff compiled on fc3 seems to link to linux-gate.so, which I guess is not going to go down too well on the older distros.
It's worth checking out wxGlade. As it says on the tin, it's not a complete IDE, just a GUI designer and you have to write the rest of the code in your favorite editor, but it works for me (and that sounds better than the sum total of all your python experience to date!).
I have to admit here that I'm not really an IDE person - I usually prefer vi and the command-line.
I've also had some experience at debugging python/c++ hybrids, but mostly on linux. On linux if you have a problem in the c++ bit you can use gdb/ddd (remember the executable is/usr/bin/python, and when you're in the python interpreter code, nothing will work unless you've compiled python with -g, but I've never found this necessary).
We pay about 120 UK pounds ($210 dollars at the current rather extreme exchange rate) per household for the priviledge. This is 10 pounds per month, but it is compulsory for all owners of television equipment (even if they could somehow fix their tuners to disable all BBC channels - on that note, does anyone know how I can fix my tuner to disable ITV2?). A comparison with this cost is the cost of satellite or cable "premium" channels which cost about 30 pounds per month (which makes it seem quite cheap really).
I presume that the BBC sells its stuff abroad - it also has a number of commercial outlets (videos, etc). Despite not being able to advertise, it relentlessly promotes its own material (which can get quite tiresome and repetitive sometimes).
Well, speaking as one British person, I'm quite happy to pay the license fee given the alternative. Radio 4 alone has got to be worth it. Of course, there are plenty of people who disagree with me here.
What I can't understand is that they have the manpower to fund this project, but not to keep the ogg vorbis streams online... (http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/)
I don't see a huge problem with the way you can "rename" a file in CVS:
mv oldname newname cvs del oldname cvs add newname cvs ci -m "Renamed file oldname to newname"
OK, so this requires a little bit of discipline to make the comment such that when you come back later to view logs, you can make the connection between the old and new filenames, but I'd say it was acceptable.
I also don't have much of a problem with what happens if you later decide to add the file oldname again - it simply resurrects the old file and history.
The trouble I have is with directories - you can't really move these (or even delete them gracefully - cvs co -P is a bit naff).
How about putting deleted directories in the Attic in the repository? That way they wouldn't hang around like an unwelcome smell. And when you move a directory you could employ much the same tactic as for files - put the entirety of the oldname tree in the Attic of the parent directory, and add a complete copy of the tree to the repository under the new name.
OK, so this could be extremely inefficient as far as storage goes, and it might require a bit more effort to access the "complete" history of a file, but it would be enough to keep me happy.
The other trouble I have with CVS is when the files get to about 100MB, it gets impossible to retreive old versions for some reason.
Hmmmm.
Otherwise, CVS is indeed the best thing since sliced bread.
I like anything with a good story, but the thing that really gets my goat is they wheel out the old barrel-bottom-scaping time-travel plot device - like they did in Star Trek 7 (or was it 8?).
It might be interesting science-speculation, blahdy-blah, but from that point on the plot is completely wreaked as basically anything goes, e.g. characters that are dead can be brought back to life by going back in time, etc, etc.
Whenever I run into this I feel like going back to Waterstones to demand my money back.
For me it doesn't matter what the tax is called - it's just the overall amount I have to pay that I'm concerned with. I'd much prefer for the method of collection to be more efficient, so that either I have to pay less, or we can make sure that in the end Tony will have more to pay those coppers, eh?
Why oh why...
A much better, fairer and simpler solution is to raise the tax through fuel duty. Someone has to pay for this complicated scheme. If fuel tax is increased there is no extra expense in raising the money as the system to do this is already in place.
I can tell you that I don't need any extra disincentive at all to avoid areas prone to traffic congestion. I'd only go there if I had no other choice.
Use bus lanes, etc to limit effect on public transport.
And before someone says "bootleg petrol", let me just say "bootleg GPS transmitter".
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This kind of speech, um, yeah, is a - a world away, you know what I mean, from how most users speak to dictation software, command-and-control, etc.
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ is the main source of speech corpora that I know about. You have to pay and possibly be a member (depending on the corpus you want I think). The catalog covers all kinds of speech. Another source is ELRA http://catalog.elra.info/, but their corpora are a little pricey!
I think the final consensus was that the best location would be the underside of the keyboard.
I have been building binaries on Redhat7.2 which seem to work OK on Fedora Core 3 (with compat-libstdc++, except there have been some problems when exceptions are thrown - anyone know anything about this?) - I assume they work OK on distributions in between too.
Does anyone know how to build binaries on newer distributions that run on older ones, especially ones that use C++. Stuff compiled on fc3 seems to link to linux-gate.so, which I guess is not going to go down too well on the older distros.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a wiki that worked like this instead of all that ===heading=== __underline__ **bold** stuff.
Even better if it allowed inline images too.
It's obviously been too long since I used latex...
I have to admit here that I'm not really an IDE person - I usually prefer vi and the command-line.
I've also had some experience at debugging python/c++ hybrids, but mostly on linux. On linux if you have a problem in the c++ bit you can use gdb/ddd (remember the executable is /usr/bin/python, and when you're in the python interpreter code, nothing will work unless you've compiled python with -g, but I've never found this necessary).
I presume that the BBC sells its stuff abroad - it also has a number of commercial outlets (videos, etc). Despite not being able to advertise, it relentlessly promotes its own material (which can get quite tiresome and repetitive sometimes).
Well, speaking as one British person, I'm quite happy to pay the license fee given the alternative. Radio 4 alone has got to be worth it. Of course, there are plenty of people who disagree with me here.
What I can't understand is that they have the manpower to fund this project, but not to keep the ogg vorbis streams online... (http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/)
I don't see a huge problem with the way you can "rename" a file in CVS:
mv oldname newname
cvs del oldname
cvs add newname
cvs ci -m "Renamed file oldname to newname"
OK, so this requires a little bit of discipline to make the comment such that when you come back later to view logs, you can make the connection between the old and new filenames, but I'd say it was acceptable.
I also don't have much of a problem with what happens if you later decide to add the file oldname again - it simply resurrects the old file and history.
The trouble I have is with directories - you can't really move these (or even delete them gracefully - cvs co -P is a bit naff).
How about putting deleted directories in the Attic in the repository? That way they wouldn't hang around like an unwelcome smell. And when you move a directory you could employ much the same tactic as for files - put the entirety of the oldname tree in the Attic of the parent directory, and add a complete copy of the tree to the repository under the new name.
OK, so this could be extremely inefficient as far as storage goes, and it might require a bit more effort to access the "complete" history of a file, but it would be enough to keep me happy.
The other trouble I have with CVS is when the files get to about 100MB, it gets impossible to retreive old versions for some reason.
Hmmmm.
Otherwise, CVS is indeed the best thing since sliced bread.
Hey, ever since we've had journalling filesystems, I've just been yanking the power cord out. Isn't this what everyone does?
I like anything with a good story, but the thing that really gets my goat is they wheel out the old barrel-bottom-scaping time-travel plot device - like they did in Star Trek 7 (or was it 8?).
It might be interesting science-speculation, blahdy-blah, but from that point on the plot is completely wreaked as basically anything goes, e.g. characters that are dead can be brought back to life by going back in time, etc, etc.
Whenever I run into this I feel like going back to Waterstones to demand my money back.
I am over here (UK) as a matter of fact.
For me it doesn't matter what the tax is called - it's just the overall amount I have to pay that I'm concerned with. I'd much prefer for the method of collection to be more efficient, so that either I have to pay less, or we can make sure that in the end Tony will have more to pay those coppers, eh?
Why oh why... A much better, fairer and simpler solution is to raise the tax through fuel duty. Someone has to pay for this complicated scheme. If fuel tax is increased there is no extra expense in raising the money as the system to do this is already in place. I can tell you that I don't need any extra disincentive at all to avoid areas prone to traffic congestion. I'd only go there if I had no other choice. Use bus lanes, etc to limit effect on public transport. And before someone says "bootleg petrol", let me just say "bootleg GPS transmitter".