From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 02 13:42:29 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NmZrH-0002yt-Ii for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:42:27 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NmZrF-0002xl-9q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:42:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:42:25 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lindar is very nice to volunteer! (was Re: Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech) Message-ID: <20100302214224.GI1159@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <27513e551002212150u42e9dbcbv8115a83795dbb393@mail.gmail.com> <243283.89690.qm@web50402.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <702226df1002220753g468a7a8fld8a8ee6741bd02a7@mail.gmail.com> <20100222160244.GS31805@digitalkingdom.org> <702226df1002250800xdc52e09g3e17856b5d67f30f@mail.gmail.com> <702226df1003010648r3b2376a1w93d7a792af638da4@mail.gmail.com> <33739.83087.qm@web50405.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100302194118.GH1159@digitalkingdom.org> <702226df1003021251n1f442ec7nb9f5fb0bb8a13c23@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <702226df1003021251n1f442ec7nb9f5fb0bb8a13c23@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 17037 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:51:58PM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote: > Now we wait for Lindar to run the program that will > automatically generate the sound files for the entries, which > are all listed in alphabetical order in column 'H' of page > 'items' in document '[1]tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu', wait for it > to finish, and upload them to > '[2]http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files'. I'm sorry, what are you talking about? What program? Why would Lindar run it; Lindar just dropped out? I'm *totally* lost. My question was intended to be a largely rhetorical shot at Lindar, btw. I'm assuming the next step is for either someone else to offer to do the recording, or for us to just use espeak (possibly to replace later). Why did anyone even write tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu ? I don't understand why simplifying things for smart.fm is a good idea at all, and even if it is, it can be done with a few minutes' scripting, or pulling the data from jbofihe (which already has phrases for all the gismu places). > I can't do this myself due to not having access to my computer at this > point, but you could probably bash script it. Assuming that Orca is on > Linux, and operates as >orca {input text} {output file} -{options}, the > actual recording execution would be 'orca %1 %1.mp3', with a for loop to > read in each of the column 'H' entries into %1. The hard part, I imagine, > would be extracting column 'H' into a text file. > � > So, at a guess, maybe 5 minutes to extract 'H', 10 minutes to code the > bash script, 45 minutes to debug and make sure it works correctly. So, my > conservative estimate on the amount of time it would take to record an > audio file for each of the entries is two hours, not including the amount > of time spent leaving the computer on and waiting for the script to > finish, or the time required to upload the files (archived or otherwise) > to '[4]http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files'. If that's you volunteering, please feel free. -Robin To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.