On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:51:58PM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Â ÂNow we wait for Lindar to run the program that will
> Â Âautomatically generate the sound files for the entries, which
> Â Âare all listed in alphabetical order in column 'H' of page
> Â Â'items' in document '[1]tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu', wait for it
> Â Âto finish, and upload them to
> Â Â'[2]http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files'.
I'm sorry, what are you talking about? ÂWhat program? ÂWhy would
Lindar run it; Lindar just dropped out? ÂI'm *totally* lost.
My question was intended to be a largely rhetorical shot at Lindar,
btw. ÂI'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 ? ÂI 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).
> Â ÂI can't do this myself due to not having access to my computer at this
> Â Âpoint, but you could probably bash script it. Assuming that Orca is on
> Â ÂLinux, and operates as >orca {input text} {output file} -{options}, the
> Â Âactual recording execution would be 'orca %1 %1.mp3', with a for loop to
> Â Âread in each of the column 'H' entries into %1. The hard part, I imagine,
> Â Âwould be extracting column 'H' into a text file.
> Â Âï
> Â ÂSo, at a guess, maybe 5 minutes to extract 'H', 10 minutes to code the
> Â Âbash script, 45 minutes to debug and make sure it works correctly. So, my
> Â Âconservative estimate on the amount of time it would take to record an
> Â Âaudio file for each of the entries is two hours, not including the amount
> Â Âof time spent leaving the computer on and waiting for the script to
> Â Âfinish, or the time required to upload the files (archived or otherwise)
> Â Âto '[4]http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files'.
If that's you volunteering, please feel free.
-Robin