Sorry people,

I didn't copy my reply to Greg to the list. Here's the list copy

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> From: David Hill <[email protected]>
> Date: March 11, 2011 10:28:14 AM PST
> To: Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>
> 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 <[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)
>> 
> 

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