[mary-dev] Tcl/Tk client

[Marc Schroeder]

Hugh,

thanks very much for this nice piece of code, and my sincere apologies 
for leaving it in my inbox for so long.

I have now finally committed this into the MARY trunk so that it will be 
shipped with MARY 5 (whenever that will be ready...).

http://mary.opendfki.de/changeset/3060

If anyone is willing to add sound output for platforms other than 
windows, patches are welcome!

Best regards,
Marc


On 05.06.11 22:03, H. Sasse wrote:
> Attached is a Tcl/Tk client for the MARY TTS system. I know there is
> already a Java GUI client, but my
> motivation for this was remarks on the Ubuntu Accessibility list that a
> java solution was inappropriate
> for some reason. Why doesn't really matter.
>
> First, let's deal with what this doesn't do. At present it doesn't have
> a means to save the sound. This
> could easily be added by cut-and-paste from the existing code, but I
> haven't done it yet. The Edit menu
> only has "select all" on it, and that is not implemented yet. I wanted
> to leave this open ended as I'd like
> to add a facility to insert tags of the correct type and format for the
> various XML dialects in use. The
> "about"on the help menu doesn't do anything yet. This is pretty much a
> draft version, and until
> people have given me feedback, I suppose I'd call it 0.0.1. The most
> important thing it lacks is the effects sliders. I've not found an
> easy-to-parse output from the server that will tell me what affects are
> available,
> and the parameters and the ranges they take. I can see the information
> is there from the documentation
> but something easy to tokenise would help. I also have not added the
> keyboard shortcuts to the menus
> which should be there for accessibility reasons. I'd need to read up on
> the conventions for those in order
> to make it consistent with curent practice.
>
> What it does do is pick up the list of voices and formats from the
> server, and build the GUI accordingly.
> The left window will take input, the right window which is not editable
> by the user will display the output
> when that is text. At startup it shows the list of voices. The Play
> button will generate the output, including
> the audio if that is selected.
>
> I think if this is well recieved and if I can figure out how to do it
> I'd like to add the XML editing features,
> saving of sound, and the effects sliders, etc. However, I think it is in
> a state where it can be used at the moment, and what would be useful is
> feedback, and people with more Tcl/Tk skills improving the code.
>
> I developed this with ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5 on Windows, so it doesn't
> use anything too novel, but
> there will be portability issues on other platforms. I've tried to keep
> all the platform specific code
> in one place.
>
> HTH
> Hugh
>
>
>
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