By Vasudev Ram
I've been seeing a good number of interesting posts about programming topics lately, on various forums, particularly HN, so I thought of sharing them here (both for my readers and for myself to look up again later). Here are some selected posts or threads that I think are interesting to programmers:
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) (josephg.com)
Web Development in Go (inburke.com)
Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems programming language?
Computer Programming Using GNU Smalltalk (2009) (canol.info)
Ask HN: What would you use to make cross-platform desktop application?
The reference D compiler is now open source (dlang.org)
The Power of Prolog (metalevel.at)
I also commented on some of the threads.
Enjoy.
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Speech synthesis in Python with pyttsx
By Vasudev Ram
[ Click on the link below to hear a synthesized voice:
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pyttsx is a library for cross-platform speech synthesis (a.k.a. text-to-speech) in Python. I saw it via this article on Dr. Dobbs Journal:
Voice Throwing with Python and Android.
I have an interest in speech synthesis and have tried out some tools for it in the past.
So I downloaded and installed pyttsx, and then tried it out a bit. Had to tweak the speech rate a bit, since the default "voice" was talking a bit too fast. Also, although going by its API, pyttsx seems to support more than one voice (if your underlying text-to-speech API supports that), the program only played the words in one voice (that of a woman), even though I ran it in a loop for all the voices. It could be that my OS doesn't support more than one voice, or maybe I need to use some other pyttsx option.
Here is the test program using pyttsx, test_pyttsx.py:
You can run it with the command:
python test_pyttsx.py
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[ Click on the link below to hear a synthesized voice:
]
pyttsx is a library for cross-platform speech synthesis (a.k.a. text-to-speech) in Python. I saw it via this article on Dr. Dobbs Journal:
Voice Throwing with Python and Android.
I have an interest in speech synthesis and have tried out some tools for it in the past.
So I downloaded and installed pyttsx, and then tried it out a bit. Had to tweak the speech rate a bit, since the default "voice" was talking a bit too fast. Also, although going by its API, pyttsx seems to support more than one voice (if your underlying text-to-speech API supports that), the program only played the words in one voice (that of a woman), even though I ran it in a loop for all the voices. It could be that my OS doesn't support more than one voice, or maybe I need to use some other pyttsx option.
Here is the test program using pyttsx, test_pyttsx.py:
import pyttsx
engine = pyttsx.init()
engine.setProperty('rate', 70)
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
for voice in voices:
print "Using voice:", repr(voice)
engine.setProperty('voice', voice.id)
engine.say("Hi there, how's you ?")
engine.say("A B C D E F G H I J K L M")
engine.say("N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z")
engine.say("0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9")
engine.say("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday")
engine.say("Violet Indigo Blue Green Yellow Orange Red")
engine.say("Apple Banana Cherry Date Guava")
engine.runAndWait()
You can run it with the command:
python test_pyttsx.py
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Kivy: cross-platform Python GUI toolkit (desktop and mobile)
Dusty's Diverse Domain » Blog Archive » Python on Android? First impressions of Kivy
Kivy has been in the tech news recently.
The article about it above is interesting. Though it only talks about mobile, the Kivy site, http://kivy.org, says that it works on desktops too - Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
PyAudio and PortAudio - like ODBC for sound
By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com
PyAudio and PortAudio are I/O libraries for sound (i.e. audio).
I'm stretching the analogy a bit here, but they made me think:
"... like ODBC for sound". (*)
PyAudio is a Python interface to PortAudio.
PyAudio:
Excerpt:
[ PyAudio provides Python bindings for PortAudio, the cross-platform audio I/O library. With PyAudio, you can easily use Python to play and record audio on a variety of platforms. ]
PortAudio:
PortAudio apps:
I installed PyAudio for Windows. Installation was trivial. It also automatically installed the PortAudio DLL (actually, the .pyd file).
I then tried a PyAudio Python program from the docs to play a small .WAV file. It worked.
(*) That's because PyAudio and PortAudio support both:
a) different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, UNIX)
b) different "Host APIs" on the same platform, where the different Host API's have, obviously, different API's, but PortAudio (and hence PyAudio) hide those differences behind a uniform interface (to some extent).
UPDATE: If you interested in checking out other Python multimedia libraries, you may also like to read this earlier post of mine about pyglet:
Playing an MP3 with pyglet and Python is easy
pyglet has some of the same benefits as PyAudio - cross-platform, easy to use, etc.
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