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 <[email protected]> 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 > > ------- > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnuspeech-contact mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ gnuspeech-contact mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
