Re: Utterance generator online (beta version)

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:26:55PM -0400, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:35:37PM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[snip]
> > Plus, affixes generally don't shift vowels in case
> > inflections, although sometimes they do. So it's just very complicated to
> > deal with.
>
> That *would* be tricky, if your automated vowel-inflector needed to
> remember which vowels came from an affix and which didn't...
Besides, it doesn't help when I *still* haven't settled on how to inflect
compound words :-P (The main problem being that I don't want to mangle
compound words beyond recognition... but maybe I'm just doing it all
wrong. I'm no good a phonologies. :-/ If only languages were made solely
from grammar. :-P)

[snip]
> That was actually half of the reason I wrote it, so that I can take the
> subroutines and drive them with an "explore all branches of this tree"
> algorithm in addition to the web-driven interface.  (The other half of
> the reason is so that I can eventually have an utterance generator for
> my experimental language Disharmony
> (http://mercury.quandary.org/~langs/disharmony.html; no updates since I
> posted about it in April) that will actually generate the MP3 files.)
No kidding. A conlang speech-synthesizer! That'd be quite a feat. :-P

> > Try GSView instead, I use it, and it seems better on Windows. Or if you're
> > on Linux, try GV, which is much better than ghostview.
>
> On a Solaris box at work w/o root, actually :)  But I'll keep that in
> mind for when I'm home on the FreeBSD box, though I don't usually bother
> starting X on that.
[snip]

Try poking around for GV on the Solaris box. Or, find a way to compile and
install it in your home dir or something. :-P I used to compile & install
programs I'm used to on my Solaris accout where I don't have root.
Sometimes on accounts tight on quota, I'd compile the thing in /tmp and
then strip and install the binaries and delete the source. :-P (But of
course, this depends very much on how much installation space is
required.)


T

--
Chance favours the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Reply