Re: [gnuspeech-contact] GNUstep & gnuspeech

[Paul Tyson]

My experience building and running gnuspeech on an Ubuntu system are in
line with Marcelo's.

However, on my 15-in laptop screen the Monet synthesizer window was
sized and positioned inconveniently, and I could not resize it to see
the command buttons.  I opened the project in gorm and was able to
resize it there, save, and then run the app to synthesize text input.  A
first improvement might be to equip the synthesizer window with resize
controls.

Since I don't know how to exercise other features of the app I can't say
more, but in poking around I did experience unexpected window
disappearances.

I am glad to see discussion on this topic.  I am new to gnuspeech and
gnustep but would like to contribute if I can.

Regards,
--Paul

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 10:29 -0800, David Hill wrote:
> Sorry people,
> 
> 
> I didn't copy my reply to Greg to the list. Here's the list copy
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: David Hill <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Date: March 11, 2011 10:28:14 AM PST
> > 
> > To: Gregory Casamento <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Subject: Re: [gnuspeech-contact] GNUstep & gnuspeech
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > We abandoned CVS a while back -- it is all in SVN now. The CVS
> > repository really ought to be removed from the gnuspeech savannah
> > site but it did not seem to be an option at the time.
> > 
> > Warm regards.
> > 
> > david
> > 
> > On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> > 
> > > As embarassing as this is...  is there a branch you guys created
> > > for
> > > building the GNUstep version because what's in CVS right now does
> > > not
> > > build for me.
> > > 
> > > Any special instructions?
> > > 
> > > GC
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM, David Hill <address@hidden>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Marcelo,
> > > > 
> > > > This is by way of a few comments on my initial experiences with
> > > > "gnuspeech" under GNUstep.
> > > > 
> > > > I have done some more testing on the GNUstep version of
> > > > gnuspeech "Synthesizer". There are more problems than I first
> > > > thought, including the fact I can even crash the App by simply
> > > > choosing a radio button at times (I found more than one
> > > > example). I need to look at this carefully and sort out the
> > > > problems. However, much of what was implemented for OS X works
> > > > on the GNUstep version, the most notable omission being the
> > > > spectrograph display for speech (but it display correctly for
> > > > the test waveform input). The spectral cross-section in the
> > > > analysis window seems to work as it is supposed to. Of course
> > > > there are stubs for some of the secondary graphs which I have to
> > > > flesh out in both versions. The "About" panel shows up without
> > > > its content, but the content is available in its .pdf file.
> > > > Perhaps GNUstep doesn't handle .pdf. I have to get more
> > > > thoroughly into testing and start looking at it in the
> > > > development environment.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there a good guide to working with the GNUstep IDE?
> > > > (especially porting from Max OS X)
> > > > 
> > > > When I  "openapp Monet" command it prints out a message near the
> > > > start:
> > > > 
> > > > Monet [2431 ] Error: No audio output device is available.
> > > > Monet [2431] API OSS
> > > > 
> > > > Do I need to install OSS, even though I did install
> > > > portaudio19-dev. I can synthesize to a file, and then listen to
> > > > it using the Media player but cannot produce the output
> > > > directly. Perhaps this is why. On subsequent invocations, the
> > > > message did not appear.
> > > > 
> > > > Later, just after ", [2431]
> > > > filename: 
> > > > /home/david/Library/Application/Support/GnuSpeech/pronunciations, db: 
> > > > 0x44e9df0, has been loaded: 1" it outputs:
> > > > 
> > > > Monet [2431] File NSData.m: 282. In readContentsOfFile read of
> > > > file (/home/david) contents failed -t
> > > > Monet [2431] Error: Failed to load file (nil) (nil)
> > > > 
> > > > but it didn't seem to stop anything working.
> > > > 
> > > > When synthesizing the message:
> > > > 
> > > > Monet [3537] NSNumberFormatter-getObjectValue:forString ... not
> > > > fully implemented
> > > > 
> > > > appeared -- presumably explaining the failure to output numbers
> > > > on the display properly (many appear as "NaN")
> > > > 
> > > > Some font "not found" messages are output .
> > > > 
> > > > PreMo seems to work just fine using openapp, but a curious fact:
> > > > I can fire up "Synthesizer" by double-clicking the App icon but
> > > > I cannot do that with "Monet" or "PreMo".
> > > > 
> > > > I am impressed by how much of the project is ported and working.
> > > > I am keen to get things to a state, as soon as possible, where I
> > > > feel comfortable with a first official release, even if it is
> > > > alpha or beta. Help anyone? Comments anyone?
> > > > 
> > > > Warm regards and thanks for any feedback.
> > > > 
> > > > david
> > > > 
> > > > -------
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc.
> > > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
> > > (240)274-9630 (Cell)
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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