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Re: [gutvol-d] Dear Jon and Bowerbird
by Joshua Hutchinson 29 May '05

29 May '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Tinsley" <jtinsley(a)pobox.com> > > How say the rest of you -- should we erase the graffiti? > Well, I think we can all agree most of the problem is one particular person. As someone who has been "dragged into a mudfight" with this person before, I know how easy it is. All of his negative qualities not-withstanding ... he is an amazingly good troll. Jon, while in this instance is posting a high noise-to-signal ratio, has on many occasions posted some very well thoughtout and useful information. While some out there may disagree with how far he wants PG to go on the meta-data front, he has some very good ideas in this area and has shown a willingness to discuss constructively. The other person in the matter has not shown any of these good qualities. I think we should ban bowerbird permanently from the list. In my opinion, the noise on this list drops to a very low level when he goes away for short periods. While no one will be surprised that I advocate banning bowerbird, I think this is something he has brought upon himself. Josh

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Re: [for the graphics wizards] Cleaning up original Burton "Kama Sutra" page scans -- need advice/help
by Juhana Sadeharju 29 May '05

29 May '05

>From: Jon Noring <jon(a)noring.name> > >for free access. [For those interested, the book is the 1885 second >printing of the second edition of Sir Richard F. Burton's "Kama Sutra >of Vatsyayana".] Please do *not* make them bitonal (black and white only)!!!!!!! You could also save time and do only the color manipulation (e.g., "gamma"). Could you place all the original scannings available for me? I could place the scannings available at our site. I also would like to process the images myself before you ruin them. Use of "gamma" most likely is not the way to improve the images. I will pick up the two example images and do experimentations. Takes a few days before I mail again with results. I have earlier done this kind of automatic level blancing in which I additionally flattened the curved pages (dark near the binding). >version for direct reading. For those who will probably ask, the raw >page scans have already been uploaded to Distributed Proofreaders for >conversion to structured digital text.] Are those original 8-bit images? How to download them from DP? What are the direct links to the pages? Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 27 May '05

27 May '05

root@box:/home/vijay# /bin/lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 2936 0 (autoclean) zlib_deflate 17304 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] bsd_comp 3960 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 7232 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 22816 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 4560 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] parport_pc 25128 1 (autoclean) lp 7460 1 parport 22496 1 [parport_pc lp] autofs4 8756 1 af_packet 13544 0 agpgart 42724 0 (unused) awe_wave 155744 0 (unused) sb 7796 1 sb_lib 33518 0 [sb] uart401 6052 0 [sb_lib] sound 55244 1 [awe_wave sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3428 6 [sb_lib sound] 8139too 13768 0 mii 2240 0 [8139too] de4x5 39488 0 crc32 2816 0 [8139too de4x5] serial 52068 2 ataraid 6404 0 (unused) ieee1394 183300 0 pcmcia_core 39840 0 apm 9736 2 ide-scsi 9040 0 rtc 7004 0 (autoclean) ext3 64388 1 (autoclean) jbd 46804 1 (autoclean) [ext3] root@box:/home/vijay# and root@box:/home/vijay# modprobe soundcore root@box:/home/vijay# --- On Fri 05/27, Richard Cohen < richard(a)daijobu.co.uk > wrote: From: Richard Cohen [mailto: richard(a)daijobu.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:04:29 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! OK, try # /bin/lsmod _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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re: [gutvol-d] jim's not answering the call
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

melissa said: > oh shut up. thanks, melissa! you have a nice weekend too! :+) -bowerbird

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jim's not answering the call
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

it appears jim isn't gonna tell me what it is that i don't know about what project gutenberg "does" here. i guess, like many people, he feels this listserve is a place to make attacks, but not to back them up... and that's too bad, because i am quite certain that i can help jim by writing software to help him "do" what he "does". so jim, why not be constructive and tell me what kind of software that might be? what do you need? what would you actually _use_?... while i have a very good idea myself, concerning what you might _need_, i have no confidence that you would actually _use_ any program i wrote, so i would be open to your suggestions... as it is, i'll be releasing a program called "wordplay" in a week or so that might prove to be useful to you, even though -- as its name implies -- entertainment is one of its goals too... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] Re: [for the graphics wizards] Cleaning up original Burton "Kama Sutra" page scans -- need advice/help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

jon said: > I'm not sure if I can give out the ftp user:pass at 'dpscans', > since it was given to me in confidence you have been telling us, often, that the internet archive will host scans. so why not make the scans available there? or put them up on a website of your own, such as the one for openreader. at your convenience, of course. :+) -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 27 May '05

27 May '05

Here is the ouptput for this trial from my machine: root@box:/home/vijay# lsmod | grep snd root@box:/home/vijay# I seem to be missing this. How can I get it ? Thanks. Vijay --- On Fri 05/27, Richard Cohen < richard(a)daijobu.co.uk > wrote: From: Richard Cohen [mailto: richard(a)daijobu.co.uk] To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Cc: rvijay07(a)myway.com Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:37:22 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! Marcello Perathoner wrote: > Try some mp3 files on your computer. Unless you can play them correctly > its no use trying to install festival. You'll have to get your ALSA > drivers working first. > It seems as though the ALSA sound drivers are working, because XMMS works. But festival uses OSS. Vijay, do you have the alsa-oss emulation loaded? For example, on my machine, # lsmod | grep snd # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 48288 0 snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_trident 39908 0 snd_ac97_codec 74040 1 snd_trident snd_pcm 83528 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_trident,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 21828 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7620 2 snd_trident,snd_pcm gameport 3648 1 snd_trident snd_util_mem 3328 1 snd_trident snd_mpu401_uart 6336 1 snd_trident snd_rawmidi 20576 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 6988 2 snd_trident,snd_rawmidi snd 48740 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_trident,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 7776 1 snd If I remove the OSS emulation, festival stops working ... # modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss $ echo "Festival is great" | festival --tts Linux: can't open /dev/dsp ... and if I put it back, it works # modprobe snd-pcm-oss $ echo "Festival is great, but this is getting a little off-topic" | festival --tts Richard. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 27 May '05

27 May '05

Thanks for this post. I just checked. There are two programs for sounds control. One is called audiomix and the other is called Kmix. Volume Control in both for speakers is set at 80% and above. The sound is enabled. So, I am lost for now as to the cause of the problem. Vijay --- On Fri 05/27, Marcello Perathoner < marcello(a)perathoner.de > wrote: From: Marcello Perathoner [mailto: marcello(a)perathoner.de] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:19:45 +0200 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! rvijay07 wrote: > Thanks for the response. I have all the files you mentioned and > festival didn't work. > > I have to use a headphone and one of them works for other programs. > However, I don't have a general volume control (Debian Linux). Volume > control works thru xmms. Install the gnome-media package. It contains gnome-volume-control . I'm not using KDE but there sure is a corresponding package there. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 27 May '05

27 May '05

Thanks for the response. I have all the files you mentioned and festival didn't work. I have to use a headphone and one of them works for other programs. However, I don't have a general volume control (Debian Linux). Volume control works thru xmms. Regards, Vijay --- On Thu 05/26, Richard Cohen < richard(a)daijobu.co.uk > wrote: From: Richard Cohen [mailto: richard(a)daijobu.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:04:06 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! rvijay07 wrote: > This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed. If your sure that your sound system is working OK outside festival, you are probably missing one of the voices. $ apt-cache search festvox festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz flite - A small run-time speech synthesis engine festvox-don - minimal British English male speaker for festival festvox-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz festvox-ellpc11k - Castilian Spanish male speaker for Festival $ echo "Festival is great" | festival --tts Richard _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 26 May '05

26 May '05

This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed. Here are all the related needed packages: Text to speech software: apt-get install kdeaccessibility apt-get install sox apt-get install xsltproc Related Document: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.4/kdeacces...using-kapp.html Festival is also needed for this: Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter. Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text. festival festival-doc Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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