[mary-dev] Tcl/Tk client

[H. Sasse]

Thank you.  No problem about the delay, there are still things I need to 
finish:  I have added
cut and paste entries to the menu for editing but they don't seem to 
work.  I thought I'd
used them in an old editor, but I had not.  I need to add the saving 
code for the sound files,
but when I have I'll be in touch again.  I hope we can find some Tcl/Tk 
devs to
help finish this off.

Also, I looked at the Tcl Dasher code, and I think it would be a major 
task to update the Tcl version
to use the full alphabet and incorporate the speech controls already 
provided in the executable
they release for Windows.  But one could then use my Tcl code to utilise 
OpenMary for this.

Is there any chance of adding an easy-to-parse list of effects for use 
in crating the sliders?
I might have overlooked one already there, of course.

     Thank you,
     Hugh

On 26/08/2011 13:56, Marc Schroeder wrote:
> 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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