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Posted: **Wed 30 Jun 2010, 17:09**

Dear Joe,

I was also thinking along the same lines - and thinking of this: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40418, which I posted a donkey's age ago. It could be reworked and show the xcowsay bit, perhaps also with speech, so that the entire "animation" could be properly timed. The gui would require adding a seconds entry widget and a checkbox for sound or not.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. I have included a slightly modified version of markup here (cleaned up and structured). It is easier to make changes to this version. Try copying this into the edit window:

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<span color="red"><tt><i>I'M</i> <u>ON</u> A <s>ROLL</s></tt> !</span><span color="green"> OK</span><sup>2</sup>?
<b>I'M ON A ROLL</b>
<b><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></b>
<b><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></b>
<b><big><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></big></b>
<b><big><big><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></big></big></b>
<b><big><big><big><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></big></big></big></b>

You will get the text shown in the image.

Posted: **Wed 30 Jun 2010, 21:52**

Hey vovchick

I was thinking about a GUI to aid in producing the code
one step before the viewer comes in

then it could be viewed like this also

save it a vovchick.html then click on it

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html><head></head><body>
<span color="red"><tt><i>I'M</i> <u>ON</u> A <s>ROLL</s></tt> !</span><span color="green"> OK</span><sup>2</sup>?
<b>I'M ON A ROLL</b>
<b><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></b>
<b><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></b>
<b><big><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></big></b>
<b><big><big><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></big></big></b>
<b><big><big><big><big><big>I'M ON A ROLL</big></big></big></big></big></b>

</body>
</html>

Posted: **Wed 30 Jun 2010, 22:32**

Dear Joe,

That works but great, but I think this little editor has potential here, too. Have a look at the attached. It's not quite ready because I am still trying to strip out trailing newlines in the edit window and in the string that gets passed to xcowsay. And the results still need to be "put together" nicely in an independent script as part of the xcowsay-generator package. But you get the idea. As you know sed better than I do, perhaps you can fix the trailing newline problem. Basically we don't want any trailing new lines except the last one. I think your idea of having the tags available as comboboxes and lists is what we want in the end.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Posted: **Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:09**

Been following the fun for the past few days. .was going to ask if it would talk.. then the reference to "festival".... is there a pet for the festival that will run on Luci or any version for that matter? Looked at the reference thread... but did not see a download link. Or did I miss it?

Keep up the FUN!

Posted: **Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:21**

Dear Minnesota,

Lobster did this festival pet back in 2008, and I think it is the one I have installed: http://tmxxine.com/festival/festival.pet.

The link is alive and the pet should work.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Posted: **Thu 01 Jul 2010, 01:35**

vovchik:

Pet downloaded fine, running under Lucid 501 I think... what flavor of puppy are your running Felix with? Not all that familiar with Linux code... so please excuse ignorance. Tried clicking on Felix icon. had in wrong director, made xcowsay directory, tried from open terminal, as well as clicked on Felix. Ran festival pet, previously. Nothing.

Thanks.

Posted: **Thu 01 Jul 2010, 03:16**

festival-1.96 sound support
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... 86-3as.tgz

I installed this one its a more complete package
on slaxer its working well

Joe

Posted: **Thu 01 Jul 2010, 10:01**

Dear Minnesota,

I would use big_bass's festival. It works fine on various Puppies, as does Felix. What you need to do first is to install the xcowsay pet. After that, unpack my Felix archive. It contains a script, a few pngs and a readme.txt. The readme gives full instructions for Felix. And you should download festival and convert it to a pet using tgz2pet. First rename it from "xxxx.tgz" to "xxxx.tar.gz". Then run tgz2pet xxxx.tar.gz. This will create an xxxx.pet. Click on the pet to install it. Installing festival this way works. Just did it on 4.xx. and Felix started talking:)

Hope that wasn't too complicated.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Posted: **Thu 01 Jul 2010, 12:03**

vovchik, Joe:
Thanks for the help... it is me.. I am still doing something wrong.... I did get Felix to display...thought I had xcowsay pet loaded on that stick, but must not have. Next started on new clean boot on 4.31, and older machine, can play CD music, and woof-woof, so not a sound problem. Tried several times to build pet. Indicates it runs, still no sound with Felix. Don't need to spend a lot more time helping to solve... I will wait till it is all working...and you guys put out something. Thanks again. Slow learner at this age I guess...only been programming for forty years.

Posted: **Thu 01 Jul 2010, 15:08**

Hey Minnesota

try this just paste the code in green in the console and press enter

later you could make it a script called festival-sound-check
and make it executable

*I try to keep things simple so that these little
code snippets can be reused easily with copy and paste

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#! /bin/bash

# Joe Arose 7-01-2010
# call this festival-sound-check

# quick sound check for festival 
# also another simple way to do messages 
# EOF is better because it allows any character
# to be used without escaping special characters 


cat << EOF >/tmp/festival_sound_test.txt
You are testing the sound quality of festival 
this message will self destruct in five minutes 
EOF

 festival --tts /tmp/festival_sound_test.txt

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#! /bin/bash

# Joe Arose 7-01-2010
# call this espeak-sound-check

# quick sound check for espeak 
# also another simple way to do messages 
# EOF is better because it allows any character
# to be used without escaping special characters 


cat << EOF >/tmp/espeak-sound-check.txt 
You are testing the sound quality of espeak 
this message will self destruct in five minutes 
EOF



 espeak  -s 120 -f /tmp/espeak-sound-check.txt | aplay

I used to build hundreds of pets but puppy kept changing with each version
so I dont make pets any more
learning how to convert packages will be your best programming skill
or if you used slaxer_pup I have it set up so that you just click on any slackware package be it *.tgz *.txz *.tlz *.tbz and it just auto installs without
any conversions it keeps a data base does dependency checking and allows you to uninstall them with a GUI . imagine how many packages you could install easily

if you wanted to try the light espeak for size and quality espeak is the winnner

installing these packages is all you need
========================================================
espeak
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... 86-1as.tgz

portaudio
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... 86-3as.tgz

jack
http://slackware.oc9.org/slackware-12.2 ... 6-1rsk.tgz
========================================================

Posted: **Thu 01 Jul 2010, 23:42**

Joe:

Thanks for helping to hold my hand... sorry I am a real novice at all this...
Here is what I did... I downloaded the festival 1.96 file on a W machine, copied it to a stick.

In the \root directory of Luci 206 I am following vovchik procedure to rename and create the pet. Right click the copied file, and rename. Open a terminal window from rt click. A pet is created yet I get the following error. Similar error when I try 4.3.1, so assume I am in the wrong directory.

Did I miss a step to create a specific directory first?
Here is what I am getting.. see attached.

Thanks... slow learner. But willing. Now if you ask me about access or payrolls or school software or databases ... lots of other languages.....

)). OH well, world does keep changing. Again thanks for the help.

Posted: **Fri 02 Jul 2010, 04:43**

you need to be in the same directory
move to it with rox
right click and select new/terminal here

. . . or you could download the ready made xpupsay and flite pets and not have to create your own

flite is also in Fluppy

Posted: **Fri 02 Jul 2010, 11:09**

Lobster:

. . . or you could download the ready made xpupsay and flite pets and not have to create your own
flite is also in Fluppy

This is becoming quite a VALUABLE learning experience for me. Sorry I do not understand all the basics. Can you direct me to the Pets?? Or am I not seeing the forest for the trees, or a specific tree in the forest.

Thanks everyone.

Posted: **Fri 02 Jul 2010, 14:58**

Hey vovchick

this will be a big help filtering out the mark up code (html)

there is an -m option built in to strip out the markup code

download this example code in html place it in /root

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wget http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/determination.html

then run this code

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cat /root/determination.html  | espeak -m -s -p35 -s110

==============================
the -m strips of the code from the file
the -s p35 is the frequency (the tone of the voice)
the -s110 is the speed in which the the speaker talks
==============================

if you just want to read this excellent story and enjoy something
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/determination.html

Joe

Posted: **Fri 02 Jul 2010, 15:25**

Dear Joe,

I like the Brooklyn Bridge story. As for espeak, I will give that a try. Festival, which doesn't seem to have that feature, still requires cleanup, but my routine seems to do it. I can then check for either player - and perhaps flitet - in a case/easc constrution and do the appropriate thing.

With thanks and kind regards,
vovchik

Posted: **Fri 02 Jul 2010, 17:22**

Hey vovchick

Depending what voice program is installed
having different choices to select from is always the best way
working out the filter for festival is very important because the sound quality is very good keep at it

heres a nice little pic for that robot sound
for personal use only of course

thanks

Joe

Posted: **Fri 02 Jul 2010, 18:19**

Minnesota wrote:Lobster:
Can you direct me to the Pets??
Thanks everyone.

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Posted: **Mon 05 Jul 2010, 17:45**

Dear Puppians (particularly Lobster and big_bass),

I did something for xcowsay over the past few days. Here is a little markup editor that allows for nice tag editing and preview, plus voice synthesis and the saving of results in ready-to-run executable scripts. Please have a look. Much more info on how this thing runs is available in the help file.

Have fun.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. Please bear in mind that this is kind of a "first draft", and suggestions are always welcome.

Posted: **Mon 05 Jul 2010, 21:14**

vovchik wrote:I did something for xcowsay over the past few days. Here is a little markup editor that allows for nice tag editing and preview, plus voice synthesis and the saving of results in ready-to-run executable scripts. Please have a look. Much more info on how this thing runs is available in the help file.

Thanks for the pet, however, not working on luci-208.

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# xcowmoo-run
./xcow-moo: line 420: gtkdialog: command not found

Jim

Posted: **Mon 05 Jul 2010, 21:21**

Dear Jim,

The problem is that gtkdialog in many Puppies has been renamed gtkdialog3 (to distinguish it from an earlier version of gtkdialog, which is called gtkdialog2 in some Puppies). The program will run fine if you simply make a symlink (using Rox, right click on /usr/sbin/gtkdialog3 and click on "Symlink", having deleted the "3" from the input box). You will then have a symlink to gtkdialog3 name gtkdialog (which is the standard name, BTW).

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. I will do that automatically in the next version.

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