[mary-dev] Tcl/Tk client

[H. Sasse]

I have added the save facility, improved the docs to reflect what is 
happening now, and have
left notes in the source about open questions which I have not been able 
to resolve at this point.
The copy and paste seems to be working a bit better than I thought, but 
there are still wrinkles
in there.  I think this is probably all I can do at the moment.
     HTH,
     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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