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Lindar is a big meanie head. :( (was Re: Lindar is very nice to volunteer! (was Re: Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech))
That's my plan when the automated import is working.
-Robin
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:09:04PM +0000, Geoffrey Beresford wrote:
> I know this is a bit further down the line, but right now the
> smartfm words are learned in alphabetical order. What about
> making the order sync up with the order they're introduced in
> Lojban For Beginners (or whatever lojban-learning text people
> vote for)? This would make [1]smart.fm a much more useful tool
> for people learning lojban from the chosen text. Not as
> important for people who already know all/most of the lojban
> vocabulary, but really important for beginners.
>
> -Geoff
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <[2]rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> 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][3]tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu', wait for it
> > to finish, and upload them to
> > '[2][4]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 [5]tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu ? I don't
> understand why simplifying things for [6]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][7]http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files'.
>
> If that's you volunteering, please feel free.
> -Robin
>
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>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://smart.fm/
> 2. mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org
> 3. http://tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu
> 4. http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files
> 5. http://tinyurl.com/smartfmgismu
> 6. http://smart.fm/
> 7. http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files
> 8. mailto:lojban-list-request@lojban.org
> 9. http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/
> 10. mailto:secretary@lojban.org
--
They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
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