| All blind users I know of who have tryed talking Mac vs Pc report Mac is far
less user friendly with speech.
The only program that makes Mac talk was Outspoken. I believe it is no longer
being updated to work with Mac OS 8.*.
There is a list called blind-l for talking PCs using Dos, and guispeek for
blind window$ users, which is of course < speech friendly.
Also blinux for talking linux.
The debates about which programs are best for making pcs talk are endless.
Cheers.
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On speech and speech recognition a good starting point is
Shortcut: speech
Apple was on the leading edge of this field three to five years ago, but
they let it languish. They're trying hard to regain their lead. OS 8 comes
with built-in speech synthesis with a large variety of voices.
On midi, for years more professionals have used Mac than any other
platform. I would start at http://www.opcode.com/ and http://www.motu.com/.
For lower cost check out http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/ME/ME4.html. I've
been midi-ing on Mac's since 1989.
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Antoine Lefebvre wrote:
>
> My system is a pentium 166 Mhz with 32M Ram and using linux 2.0.34 with the
> latest OSS/free that work.
> For the buffer, I try to change it with the -B and -b flag of the csound
> comand line but it change nothing!!!!
(Nothing, meaning the 6 second latency Antione is experiencing)
I hope you don't mind, Antione, that I CC'd this mail back to the
mailing list.
This problem suspiciously sounds liike it could be related to a bug in
the Csound OSS code a while back. Unfortunately, I don't have the source
on my machine at the moment, so hopefully another Linux person could
provide the details.
The problem was that in the OSS ioctl call that specifies the fragment
size, and the number of fragments, the code correctly used the
command-line buffer size as the fragment size. (The OSS "fragment" is
essentially what we think of as a buffer). But the top byte of the
argument, which specifies the number of fragments, was initially all
high, which means "allocate as many fragments as possible". At one point
I caught this error, and changed the top-half of the argument to specify
using two fragments.
Sorry the above is so muddled. Hopefully Dave Phillips or someone else
working on the Linux version could point you to the exact source code to
check.
OTOH, If you just recently downloaded the current Linux version, then
this should be already fixed, so maybe your problem is something else.
> I have code a little utility to change the setting of /dev/dsp (rate, bits,
> channels) but it seem to get back the default value when I close /dev/dsp in
> my program. Is it normal??????
>
I'm not a Unix expert, but yes, I think this is normal, if you're using
ioctl() calls.
Larry
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Trenton Avant Garde Festival '98
Saturday noon to 10 pm in Mill Hill Park and surroundings, Trenton,
N.J., USA.
Free.
Indoor and outdoor stages. Rain date Sunday Sept. 13.
willl feature, among about a 100 other performances, three tape
compositions using mostly Csound, by Jon Christopher Nelson, Carlton
Wilkinson, and Kelly Wood indoors at the Joe's Mill Hill Saloon upstairs
stage.
Live performances will include a roving installation altering crowd
noise with a laptop computer and several analog/digital instrument
players, Chapman Stick players, altered and invented instruments,
looping artists and noise improvisers. Also a ton of visual art,
multimedia and spoken word.
A complete list of performers will be accessible soon at
http://www.trentonnj.com/TAG
The site is under construction, but directions and some further
information are already available there.
Thank you.
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