Re: [pygame] pygame.midi not working on Ubuntu Jaunty?
Ok, I got it going. For me the modprobe is not required. Simply typing sudo /etc/init.d/timidity restart fixes things up. That command stops and restarts the timidity server. Why doing that fixes its relationship to pygame I don't know but it does. Note that vkeybd (an app from the Ubuntu repository) works fine without this hack. So there is something different about the way pygame is using midi. Thanks for the help gb Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Hi, The instructions I found for Timidity, http://koti.mbnet.fi/bstrom/filedata/en/my-timidity-howto.html, claim that the Alsa virtual midi port module must also be installed: modprobe vir_midi With it in place and the Timidity virtual server started I get this listing from pygame.examples.midi: ~$ python -m pygame.examples.midi --list 0: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (output) 1: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (input) 2: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-0:, opened :0: (output) 3: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-0:, opened :0: (input) 4: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-1:, opened :0: (output) 5: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-1:, opened :0: (input) 6: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-2:, opened :0: (output) 7: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-2:, opened :0: (input) 8: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-3:, opened :0: (output) 9: interface :ALSA:, name :VirMIDI 1-3:, opened :0: (input) 10: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 0:, opened :0: (output) 11: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 1:, opened :0: (output) 12: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 2:, opened :0: (output) 13: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 3:, opened :0: (output) I tried it with port 10 and it works, though sounds lousy on my slow machine. With some Timidity tweaks for interactive playback the sound becomes better. Lenard Lindstrom Gary Bishop wrote: More details on what I am seeing: $ pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 128:0 TiMidity TiMidity port 0 128:1 TiMidity TiMidity port 1 128:2 TiMidity TiMidity port 2 128:3 TiMidity TiMidity port 3 pmidi shows I have midi ports. $ vkeybd --addr 128:0 Works and sounds fine. $ python midi.py --list 0: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (output) 1: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (input) 2: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 0:, opened :0: (output) 3: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 1:, opened :0: (output) 4: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 2:, opened :0: (output) 5: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 3:, opened :0: (output) The pygame midi test can see all the midi ports. $ python midi.py --output 2 0: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (output) 1: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (input) 2: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 0:, opened :0: (output) 3: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 1:, opened :0: (output) 4: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 2:, opened :0: (output) 5: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 3:, opened :0: (output) using output_id :2: Running midi.py with --output 2 looks great but no sound. Still looking for ideas. Thanks gb Gary Bishop wrote: Yes, timidity is in the list and as I said, works fine from the vkeybd app connects to it and works fine. gb Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Gary Bishop wrote: I'm trying out the new pygame.midi on Ubuntu Jaunty. I'm running examples/midi.py in output mode on Python 2.6.2 with pygame 1.9.1 built from source without errors. portmidi and porttime were found during the build. The vkeybd app works so I know midi output (timidity) works fine. examples/midi.py displays properly and does not produce any error messages but it produces no sound. Any ideas? Thanks gb Hi Gary, Try the --list option on examples/midi.py to see if a virtual timidity output port is present. Getting some form of midi working with alsa is a hassel. Lenard Lindstrom
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi not working on Ubuntu Jaunty?
More details on what I am seeing: $ pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 128:0 TiMidity TiMidity port 0 128:1 TiMidity TiMidity port 1 128:2 TiMidity TiMidity port 2 128:3 TiMidity TiMidity port 3 pmidi shows I have midi ports. $ vkeybd --addr 128:0 Works and sounds fine. $ python midi.py --list 0: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (output) 1: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (input) 2: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 0:, opened :0: (output) 3: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 1:, opened :0: (output) 4: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 2:, opened :0: (output) 5: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 3:, opened :0: (output) The pygame midi test can see all the midi ports. $ python midi.py --output 2 0: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (output) 1: interface :ALSA:, name :Midi Through Port-0:, opened :0: (input) 2: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 0:, opened :0: (output) 3: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 1:, opened :0: (output) 4: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 2:, opened :0: (output) 5: interface :ALSA:, name :TiMidity port 3:, opened :0: (output) using output_id :2: Running midi.py with --output 2 looks great but no sound. Still looking for ideas. Thanks gb Gary Bishop wrote: Yes, timidity is in the list and as I said, works fine from the vkeybd app connects to it and works fine. gb Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Gary Bishop wrote: I'm trying out the new pygame.midi on Ubuntu Jaunty. I'm running examples/midi.py in output mode on Python 2.6.2 with pygame 1.9.1 built from source without errors. portmidi and porttime were found during the build. The vkeybd app works so I know midi output (timidity) works fine. examples/midi.py displays properly and does not produce any error messages but it produces no sound. Any ideas? Thanks gb Hi Gary, Try the --list option on examples/midi.py to see if a virtual timidity output port is present. Getting some form of midi working with alsa is a hassel. Lenard Lindstrom
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi not working on Ubuntu Jaunty?
Yes, timidity is in the list and as I said, works fine from the vkeybd app connects to it and works fine. gb Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Gary Bishop wrote: I'm trying out the new pygame.midi on Ubuntu Jaunty. I'm running examples/midi.py in output mode on Python 2.6.2 with pygame 1.9.1 built from source without errors. portmidi and porttime were found during the build. The vkeybd app works so I know midi output (timidity) works fine. examples/midi.py displays properly and does not produce any error messages but it produces no sound. Any ideas? Thanks gb Hi Gary, Try the --list option on examples/midi.py to see if a virtual timidity output port is present. Getting some form of midi working with alsa is a hassel. Lenard Lindstrom
[pygame] pygame.midi not working on Ubuntu Jaunty?
I'm trying out the new pygame.midi on Ubuntu Jaunty. I'm running examples/midi.py in output mode on Python 2.6.2 with pygame 1.9.1 built from source without errors. portmidi and porttime were found during the build. The vkeybd app works so I know midi output (timidity) works fine. examples/midi.py displays properly and does not produce any error messages but it produces no sound. Any ideas? Thanks gb
Re: [pygame] Sound still glitchy in 1.8.1rc1 on Ubuntu
Hi, Yes, I have run the buffer size up huge with no improvement. I'm pretty sure it is not a buffer size problem. I isolated this piece from some spoken text. It occurred on several words in the sequence but not on every word. It does not appear to be related to amplitude because some words sounded fine at higher and lower volumes. It is not obvious what is different. Particular lengths? Maybe only a few samples are broken and some words have very low energy at those places? I hear the problem at 11025 as well as 22050. I *don't* hear the problem with the size set to -8 but I don't want to use 8 bit audio. I wish my sound card had the capability to record the stereo output. Then I could carefully examine the waveform to possibly guess what is happening. Alas, it doesn't. Perhaps a jumper from headphone to microphone will do the job with careful adjustment of the levels. gb Brian Fisher wrote: Hi Gary, Making the mixer work great in all cases without tweaking numbers is indeed a goal for pygame. I would guess that in this case the problem may be something other than the buffer size, which is what was tweaked in 1.8.1 to be larger. This seems the case to me because you mentioned a higher sampling rate eliminates the problem for you. To confirm, can you try a big fat buffer size with the original 22050 sampling rate? (basically something that should be able to fit the whole .44 second wave without mixing over time) so something like this: pygame.mixer.init(22050, -16, 2, 16384) The lag will likely be longer, so I'm just curious if playback quality is good in that case. Also, have you tried many other wav files? Any at different sampling rates? Is the problem consistent at 22050 for all samples tried, or are there some that don't seem to have problems? On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Gary Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. Yes, fooling with the options to pygame.mixer.pre_init seems to always be the not very satisfactory answer. My understanding of the goal for 1.8.1 was to eliminate that requirement. Having users fool with numbers on a hit or miss basis is a sure way to drive them away. That said, I found that forcing the rate to 44100 instead of letting it be at 22050 where it apparently went by default makes it sound better. Makes no sense that a higher sampling rate cures it but it appears to.
Re: [pygame] Sound still glitchy in 1.8.1rc1 on Ubuntu
1. No, diff. That sleep is just waiting for the audio to terminate. 2. Yes, fooling with the options to pygame.mixer.pre_init seems to always be the not very satisfactory answer. My understanding of the goal for 1.8.1 was to eliminate that requirement. Having users fool with numbers on a hit or miss basis is a sure way to drive them away. That said, I found that forcing the rate to 44100 instead of letting it be at 22050 where it apparently went by default makes it sound better. Makes no sense that a higher sampling rate cures it but it appears to. 3. Yes, the real code pumps the event queue. That was just a boiled down demo case. Thanks gb claxo wrote: I'am not an expert in pygame audio but: 1. It makes any diference if you reduce the sleep time? Say, 1/30 sec by example. 2. It makes some diference if you initialize the mixer with diferent buffer sizes ? That was pointed to me by Patrick Mullen time ago, and the advice periodically resurfaces. Sometimes, especially with old hardware, increasing the buffer size alleviates the problem ( at the cost of more latency, If i remember well). ex: # last param is buffer size pygame.mixer.init(44100, -16, True, 1024) 3. Your real code really dont pump the event queue? Maybe .get_busy() updates all necesary inner state, but a lot of pygame functionallity depends on the event queue being pumped. HTH --- claxo
[pygame] Sound still glitchy in 1.8.1rc1 on Ubuntu
The following small program still produces glitchy audio using 1.8.1rc1
checked out from svn today. You can get the file w11.wav (a single
spoken word from espeak) here: http://gb-cs.cs.unc.edu/tmp/w11.wav
import pygame
import time
print pygame.version.ver
pygame.init()
snd = pygame.mixer.Sound('w11.wav')
c = snd.play()
while c.get_busy():
time.sleep(0.1)
I get the same bad audio with 1.8.
Other apps, including audacity and totem play it fine.
Is there any hope for pygame sound on Linux? Otherwise it is a great
platform for our accessible games for children with disabilities.
Thanks
gb
Re: [pygame] seg fault question with numpy and pygame and py2exe
Do you have the latest py2exe from svn? I had problems until I downloaded and built it myself. Then it worked great. Apparently some changes have been made in the repository that haven't been released. gb andy uehara wrote: Hello all, I have read that there is an issue with Exception in _numpysurfarray.py But I don't think my issue is the same. The code compiles and runs fine normally using python interpreter. When I run py2exe I produce a windows executable. But, when I run the windows executable, I get a segmentation fault. Here is the actual error: Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault I tried to make the smallest case example: #!/usr/bin/env python import os import pygame import numpy from pygame.locals import * def main(): pygame.init() mini=pygame.Surface((5,5)) mini_surfarray = pygame.surfarray.array3d(mini) #this calls the 'main' function when this script is executed if __name__ == '__main__': main() Here is my system information: windows 64 vista python: 2.5.2 pygame 1.8.0 py2exe 0.6.6 numpy 1.0.4 Is this the same issue as numpysurfarray.py? I apologize if this is a py2exe or numpy issue. I am not sure where to look further since the pygame parachute doesn't give me more information. -andy - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
Re: [pygame] Python and Speed
ctypes is great stuff! I find it much harder to crash the interpreter with ctypes than with extensions I've developed and debugged. It is quite resilient. I've used it to interface with the Windows API to simulate keystrokes, to interface to a USB Digital IO interface, in a wrapper for the huge OpenCV library, to set the background image on my desktop, to adjust the system volume control, to interface to the Wiimote, and to wrap eSpeak to name a few. I've pretty much given up on swig and pyrex. gb Greg Ewing wrote: Ian Mallett wrote: How do you write an extension module in C and call it from Python? Someone gave some instructions earlier, but I found them too vague... Another way I forgot to mention earlier is to use the ctypes module (I often forget about it, because it wasn't in the stdlib until very recently.) That allows you to call compiled routines from a shared library directly without having to write any C. It's less efficient, though, as it has to go through some Python wrapper objects to get there, and also more dangerous, because you can easily crash the interpreter if you don't get everything exactly right.
Re: [pygame] TTS and VISTA?
pyTTS works on Vista. It just has a different selection of voices. gb FT wrote: Hi, Since Microsoft has deliberately destroyed the use of the TTS engines in VISTA, does anyone know if someone is going to make a TTS version for VISTA? Bruce
Re: [pygame] pygame for 2d graphics
Madhubala wrote: > My code is below > - > s = pygame.Surface((4892,3164)) #original dimension of a screen in > pixels got from some other application > s.fill((255,255,255)) > > pygame.draw.aalines(s,(0,0,0),True,[(3000,2500),(3192,2500),(3192,2648),(3000,2648)],0) > #original dimensions of a rect > pygame.display.init() > w = pygame.display.set_mode((1000,750)) > s1 = pygame.transform.scale(s,(1000,750)) > w.blit(s1,(0,0)) > pygame.display.flip() > When i am trying to scale down the original surface to pygame window , > the rectangle is not visible. > This is original scalling. I have to provide different scalling > levels to provide zooming effect . > You are experiencing the destructive effects of aliasing. The scale function probably does point or at best bilinear sampling. When scaling down by such a large factor you must first filter the image to remove frequencies above 1/2 the sampling rate, then sample. This can be done with a convolution but is likely to be slow. You'll likely also be unhappy with the resulting dimness of the lines. The filtering will blend them with their environment causing them to be light gray instead of black. You can read more about aliasing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing gb
Re: [pygame] Creating unique userevent ids?
René Dudfield wrote: I see it uses opencv. Did you know there is a python module for opencv made by the opencv authors? Yes, I tried the official one and it didn't work for me so I found Otto's ctypes wrapper and got it working with the latest version of opencv. I really prefer using ctypes over other types of extensions because it frees me from the issues of building for multiple platforms. gb
Re: [pygame] py2exe problems
Ian Mallett wrote: New problem. My program (which only uses pygame) doesn't run when py2exe'd. It says something about not being able to find the surfarray module when the .exe is run, but it closes almost instantly, so I can't really tell. I upgraded to pygame 1.8, if that makes a difference. Run it from the command prompt, then you'll get to see the message. py2exe has some facilities for forcing it to include modules. gb
Re: [pygame] Timing question (newbie)
I've attached some very rough, proof of concept code I wrote for my students. It wants 2 command line arguments. The first is a sound file (mp3 or wav). The second has the times in seconds at which beats occur. I generated mine with aubiotrack. You feed it a wav file and it prints out times of the detected beat. The program draws a little graph showing how close your key, mouse, or ddr pad presses are to the beat. Very rough. It was just a test to see if this was even possible. I've got a team of students working on an accessible version of DDR for kids who are blind. They'll do a better job I'm sure. gb Miguel Sicart wrote: Hi all, I have a question about timing - I want to make a little game based on rhythm input, a bit like dance dance revolution, patapon, or similar. The idea is that the player has to press a key within a specific time, getting more points the better the timing. And I have little idea how to do it. I am thinking creating uservents, and the matching them to key input, but I am a bit clueless about the timing thing. Any help is welcome! Thanks a bunch! M HIT_TOL = 0.200 BEAT_TOL = 0.033 import sys import os import pygame music = pygame.mixer.music from bisect import bisect pygame.mixer.pre_init(44100,-16,2,1024*2) pygame.init() songfile = sys.argv[1] timefile = sys.argv[2] music.load(songfile) times = [ float(t.strip()) for t in file(timefile, 'rt') ] def GetDelta(t): n = bisect(times, t) d1 = t - times[n-1] d2 = times[n] - t if d1 < d2: return -d1 else: return d2 size = width, height = 320, 240 origin = height/2 scale = height/2 bar_w = 16 bar_n = width/bar_w screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size, pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.HWSURFACE) try: joystick = pygame.joystick.Joystick(0) joystick.init() except pygame.error: pass music.play() errors = [] run = True while run: t = music.get_pos() * 0.001 dt = GetDelta(t) hit = False for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: run = False if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN: if event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE: run = False f = max(-1, min(1, (dt / HIT_TOL))) hit = abs(f) < 0.5 errors.append(f) if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONDOWN or event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: f = max(-1, min(1, (dt / HIT_TOL))) hit = abs(f) < 0.5 errors.append(f) else: pygame.time.wait(2) if abs(dt) < BEAT_TOL: screen.fill((255,255,255)) else: screen.fill((0,0,0)) for i,f in enumerate(errors[-bar_n:]): x1 = i*bar_w w = bar_w if f < 0: y1 = origin + f * scale else: y1 = origin h = abs(f) * scale if f < 0: c = (255,0,0) else: c = (0,255,0) screen.fill(c, pygame.Rect(x1, y1, w, h)) pygame.display.flip() print 'exiting'
Re: [pygame] TTS and Pitch Parameter
I repeat, pyTTS, at least the version 3.0 that I have, does not have a method or property named Pitch. You are, I think simply assigned those values to an instance variable that you are adding to the tts object. Do you hear the pitch change when you assign to the pitch variable? I include a session in ipython below. You can see that while tts.Rate is identified as a property, tts.Pitch is not found. gb In [2]: tts=pyTTS.Create() In [3]: tts.Rate? Type: property Base Class: String Form: Namespace: Interactive Docstring: @return: Rate of speech, typically in the range of [-10, 10] @rtype: integer Class Docstring: property(fget=None, fset=None, fdel=None, doc=None) -> property attribute fget is a function to be used for getting an attribute value, and likewise fset is a function for setting, and fdel a function for del'ing, an attribute. Typical use is to define a managed attribute x: class C(object): def getx(self): return self.__x def setx(self, value): self.__x = value def delx(self): del self.__x x = property(getx, setx, delx, "I'm the 'x' property.") In [4]: tts.Pitch? Object `tts.Pitch` not found. In [5]: FT wrote: Hi! Below is the speech.py file which will load in python25 from my windows OS. It uses the same command as in the pygame example, no different. So, the same import should be in affect, except if pygame uses these same commands, the pitch does not work.
Re: [pygame] TTS and Pitch Parameter
I don't think pyTTS has a method or property named Pitch. Maybe you're using another tts engine? gb FT wrote: Brian, I know pygame has no text to speech, but the python25 I have does not have the error. It would appear to be how pygame was made. For the pyTTS module is brought in but something in pygame must be interfering with it. For the module is the same, something else must be there. Or a different revision level...Mixer??? Bruce Brian Fisher Wrote: pygame doesn't have any text-to-speech features. I don't think pygame is related to the problem. I think it's a red herring. On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:31 AM, FT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When running a python25 game I get the tts.Rate and tts.Pitch to work fine. But when using pygame the tts.Pitch is not there, is there a reason why? Is it because of the wrong version used to make pygame? I am using pygame 1.8.0 rc3 and it just says that this parameter is not a part of this synth Bruce
Re: [pygame] Creating unique userevent ids?
Hi Rene,
You can find the rapidly changing current version of the code in CVS at
http://uncpythontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/uncpythontools/CV/ under
pygame_cam.py. You'll need CVtypes of course. It appears to work for me
on Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X.
I've just hacked together an object for the pgu gui kit. If that
interests you I can create another project for it in CVS.
I'm working as hard as I can to get stuff ready for a trip to Asheville
week after next so I don't have much time to discuss it now but I'd be
very pleased to talk to anyone interested about how best to provide such
capabilities to the pygame community.
gb
René Dudfield wrote:
hi,
that's probably a good idea :)
The upcomming SDL 1.3 has a new method for doing better user events...
until then, it's probably good to do something like Ian suggests -
except maybe start way higher. Perhaps have some functions for
getting events? That way your code would be more abstracted for
working with later changes. eg. FRAME_READY =
webcam.get_event("FRAME_READY") etc.
ps. do you have a url for your code repository? I've also been
thinking about starting a webcam module probably based of VidCapture,
and opencv. I think webcam support would be good for the next release
of pygame, that is version 1.9. Same with wiimote support.
I think if we include new code with pygame that requires new events,
we would increment USEREVENT, and hopefully that won't break much user
code.
That could be another approach that you take, increment USEREVENT
yourself at init time, and require your init code before USEREVENT
usage.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Ian Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I really have no idea what I'm talking about. :)
If I have separate modules that must use the same set of integers to do
something, (like my solution for wxPython menu bindings), I go like this:
module number + number
1+1 = 11
2+52 = 252
1+31 = 131
...and so on. This ensures that the bandwidth for each module remains
reserved. All of the numbers beginning in 1 belong to module 1, like 11,
110, and 1100, all the ones to 2 begin with 2, like 21, 210, and 2100. You
could add this value to pygame.USEREVENT for each submodule.
I've never used pygame.USEREVENT, so I have no idea what I'm talking about.
This might totally work, or be completely in the wrong direction. I
apologise in the case of the latter. :)
HTH
Ian
--
There are 10 kinds of people;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
Re: [pygame] PGU doesn't work when installed?
Sorry, my fault. Works fine. gb Gary Bishop wrote: Phil's pygame utilities work fine from the current directory but fails after python setup.py install. I get: cannot import name text. This is python 2.5.1 on Ubuntu. Is this a known problem? Thanks gb
[pygame] PGU doesn't work when installed?
Phil's pygame utilities work fine from the current directory but fails after python setup.py install. I get: cannot import name text. This is python 2.5.1 on Ubuntu. Is this a known problem? Thanks gb
Re: [pygame] event.wait and userevents
I think the problem is the way you are using it. This works fine for me. pygame.time.set_timer(pygame.USEREVENT, 1000) while True: event = pygame.event.wait() if event.type == pygame.QUIT: break elif event.type == pygame.USEREVENT: print 'timer' Christian Reichlin wrote: hello, i made a litte app with pygame. i had troubles with the event loop using pygame.event.wait and userevents, triggered by pygame.time.set_timer(pygame.USEREVENT, 1000) the following code didn't work. it looks like during pygame.event.wait() userevents aren't processed internally. as long as no other event got triggered, the loop blocked. ... for event in [ pygame.event.wait() ] + pygame.event.get( ): # event handling code
Re: [pygame] Text To Speech PYTTS
Speaking of "selfish and lazy", changing topics in a thread without changing the subject is the worst. Years from now people will be searching for Text to Speech PYTTS and get this crap! Lazily and selfishly yours, gb Greg Ewing wrote: Joe Johnston wrote: Top posting, also known as "jeopardy posting," has the unfortunate consequence of giving the answer before the question is known. Aaaargh. Whenever I see a thread about "Top posting or bottom posting?" it makes me want to shout out NEITHER!!! Both of them are a stupid and senseless waste of bandwidth. The only sensible quoting method is to quote as *little* of the original as necessary to establish context. Anyone who refuses to take the time to do this is being selfish and lazy.
Re: [pygame] Other Engines
no I haven't looked at it. FT wrote: Gary, NVDA uses a large choice of engines and wondering if you have looked at it? Gives you choices on what to use. Bruce
Re: [pygame] Text To Speech PYTTS
Sorry to hear you run Vista. That is probably the root of the problem. I have made pyTTS work on Vista back when I had a VM running it but I don't now. I recommend you upgrade to XP. Lots of vendors are offering XP upgrade coupons for people who bought Vista. gb Ian Mallett wrote: Vista Home Premium
Re: [pygame] Text To Speech PYTTS
You need the additional voices. XP comes with only MSSam. You can get Mary and Mike here: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/Hark3/SAPI5VoiceInstaller.msi gb FT wrote: Hi! No, for an error will come up if you use the 4 version for Python 2.5 so it will not work. But, having loaded the SAPI5 I can not access the Mary and Mike voices, even though I used the SAPI installer. So something is going on or they are not being installed. Mine does work but only with the Sam voice. Some how they have to be loaded into the Control panel for speech and how is that done? For that is the only conclusion if all other things are there and installed. For the problem you're having seems to be the same but on a different level. FOr I am given no choice on what speech to install unless that is done directly from the Windows disk... Bruce Ian, What operating system are you using? gb Ian Mallett wrote: I did that and it still doesn't work. Must I use pyTTS-3.0.win32-py2.4.exe-- I have Python 2.5 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.2/1305 - Release Date: 2/29/2008 6:32 PM
Re: [pygame] Text To Speech PYTTS
Ian, What operating system are you using? gb Ian Mallett wrote: I did that and it still doesn't work. Must I use pyTTS-3.0.win32-py2.4.exe-- I have Python 2.5
Re: [pygame] Open Sounds From URL
You don't need StringIO there. It is just converting a string into a
file object. urllib2.urlopen() returns a file object.
So this will work also:
#! /usr/bin/env python
import urllib2, time
from pygame import mixer
from cStringIO import StringIO
#Read the sound from the url
snd = urllib2.urlopen("http://pymike93.googlepages.com/shoot.wav";)
#Convert to a sound!
mixer.init()
sound = mixer.Sound(snd)
sound.play()
#Pause while you listen to a sound loaded from an online database!
time.sleep(1)
PyMike wrote:
Hey guys! I figured out how to open sounds from urls! Enjoy!
#! /usr/bin/env python
import urllib2, time
from pygame import mixer
from cStringIO import StringIO
#Read the sound from the url
f = urllib2.urlopen("http://pymike93.googlepages.com/shoot.wav";).read()
#Convert to a file
snd = StringIO(f)
#Convert to a sound!
mixer.init()
sound = mixer.Sound(snd)
sound.play()
#Pause while you listen to a sound loaded from an online database!
time.sleep(1)
Re: [pygame] Sound to String
Peter Parente provides some examples of using pyTTS at http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pytts.html. Windows only. I've got a simple wrapper for the open-source espeak dll. Not documented unfortunately. NVDA probably has one also. I've only tested it on linux but I bet it works on windows and mac too. Especially if you don't use its audio output. gb FT wrote: Hi! I was also wondering along these lines if anyone knows who has the best text to speech documentation? I would like to learn how to use it, and write my own talking games. I am using the windows OS Bruce Subject: Re: [pygame] Sound to String You can use sndarray to change the sound into an array, then you can recompose the sound in your file. PyDay allows the use of modules in the construction, though not in the final product. In short, you can use Numeric to create the data, but you will have to reencode it yourself. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1301 - Release Date: 2/27/2008 8:35 AM
[pygame] Creating unique userevent ids?
I'm gradually building up a small collection of modules that enhance pygame with new input devices (wiimote, webcam). The modules generate new events so I've been doing things like pygame.USEREVENT+1. But this is guaranteed to get me into trouble when using multiple independent extensions. Is there some way to assure I've got a unique id? wxPython has NewId for this purpose. Thanks Gary Bishop
