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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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[for the graphics wizards] Cleaning up original Burton "Kama Sutra" page scans -- need advice/help
by Jon Noring 26 May '05

26 May '05

[There are no doubt a few graphics wizards here who might have some good advice to share on the following message I've been posting on various forums and groups. Of course, let me know if PG would be interested in archiving the cleaned up page scans. As noted below, I've already started the process at DP to produce structured digital text of this book, which then will be fed back to PG. Thanks!] I'm now working to "clean up" the 182 page images from a recent scan of a very rare and noteworthy public domain book. The cleaned-up scans will be released to the public (such as given to the Internet Archive) 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".] The scans were done at 600 dpi (optical) 256-color greyscale (there's no color in the book), to capture sufficient fine-detail to aid in the cleanup process. Of course, the book was chopped (the binding was falling apart anyway) and each page scanned on a flat-bed, so there's no page distortion caused by trying to scan a bound book. There are no illustrations -- it's all black and white text. I've already deskewed, cropped, centered and size-normalized all 182 pages. (For those interested, links to two sample partially-cleaned pages are given below.) In the cleanup process, I'd like to convert what I now have into 600-dpi *bitonal* (black and white) with uniform and nicely readable character density, removal of "pepper", cleanup of larger blotches, etc. I recognize there will be some handwork required, particularly to remove larger "pepper" and blotches, and repair a few characters, etc., but of course want to minimize handwork. [Note that the purpose of the cleanup is for direct human-use of the scans, and not solely for OCR purposes which doesn't require the planned level of cleanup. For example, I plan to produce a DjVu 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.] Unfortunately, what complicates the clean-up process is that the original book is in poor and variable condition. The paper is quite yellowed and darkened, and many pages are quite faded. Were the original in mint condition with good, uniform ink-to-paper contrast, I wouldn't be posting this request for advice. But the overall poor quality and page-to-page variation is taxing my graphics abilities to produce a clean finished product with reasonably readable and uniform character density (at 600-dpi bitonal.) Here are two sample pages, each about 4.5 megs in size (2550x3900 greyscale): http://www.openreader.org/kamasutra/page031.png (good condition) http://www.openreader.org/kamasutra/page106.png (poor condition) I would assume that others have had similar needs and have come up with various processing tricks and even built special tools to aid in the clean-up process (e.g., how to auto-remove small "pepper", the one to few pixel wide black spots on the white background?). I look forward to your advice and even help if you are interested (I will upload all the partially-cleaned images somewhere if you want to help with the actual clean-up process -- the whole set of images totals 680 megs.) [As a final note, I use Paint Shop Pro 9, but do not have Photoshop. But since PSP9 is fairly powerful, I assume that many, if not all, recommended Photoshop processes will map over to PSP9.] Thanks! Jon Noring

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re: [gutvol-d] [for the graphics wizards] Cleaning up original Burton "Kama Sutra" page scans -- need advice/help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

jon said: > The paper is quite yellowed and darkened, > and many pages are quite faded. see a post from juliet on the d.p. forums about "gamma". -bowerbird

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Eldred denied once again
by Branko Collin 24 May '05

24 May '05

The DC District Court has ruled against Eric Eldred in Luck's Music Library v. Gonzalez. If Eldred had won, and if I understand this correctly, a number of works would have returned to the public domain. http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/05/24/dc_circuit_rejec ts_challenge_to_congress_removing_works_from_the_public_domain.php (Or go to http://www.corante.com/importance/ and scroll down the page.) -- branko collin collin(a)xs4all.nl

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