Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, I tried out your new speech.py last night and it checked out OK. I've put this code in the book and in Git. I will probably add an example of how to use espeak word splitting before the book is published. Right now I need to work on learning collaboration so I can teach it to others,

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41:59PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various additions and corrections to the rest

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, Thanks for your feedback. I'll check out your new code when I get home. Offhand I can't tell what you changed, but I'll make sure to test everything before I update the chapter. I was hoping that speech.py could be a file that new developers could drop into their Activities without

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, I did consider mentioning the word tracking feature you put in your example. However, when I tried your example with actual book text rather than letting it speak the source code of the program it seemed to actually skip speaking some of the words. The markup version was more robust.

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out what I have a PDF created with