My experience building and running gnuspeech on an Ubuntu system are in line with Marcelo's.
However, on my 15-in laptop screen the Monet synthesizer window was sized and positioned inconveniently, and I could not resize it to see the command buttons. I opened the project in gorm and was able to resize it there, save, and then run the app to synthesize text input. A first improvement might be to equip the synthesizer window with resize controls. Since I don't know how to exercise other features of the app I can't say more, but in poking around I did experience unexpected window disappearances. I am glad to see discussion on this topic. I am new to gnuspeech and gnustep but would like to contribute if I can. Regards, --Paul On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 10:29 -0800, David Hill wrote: > Sorry people, > > > I didn't copy my reply to Greg to the list. Here's the list copy > > Begin forwarded message: > > > 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) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnuspeech-contact mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact _______________________________________________ gnuspeech-contact mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
