[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-27

[James Cameron]

Thanks.

How practical is it to add a word highlight callback to the sugar3
speech module?  It might be useful for other activities.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:29:39AM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> James,
> 
> I'll have a look at the accelerator.
> 
> My code needs its own speech function because I highlight each word as it is
> being spoken. That function never worked that well, but I'd like to keep it.
> Read ETexts is the first application to use the gstreamer espeak plugin. I'll
> need to update the MYOSA TTS chapter to include the speech module.
> 
> I had no idea that everyone moved from Gitorious to GitHib. The MYOSA book
> describes using GitHub, so it looks like I'll need to move all my code and
> rewrite that chapter. I won't be able to do either one for awhile, but I'll get
> to it. In the interim I'll put the new entry in [1]activity.info.
> 
> Read ETexts has a collaboration feature (file transfer, not Tubes). I haven't
> had the opportunity to check that yet. Hopefully it still works.
> 
> This Activity is an old one, from the days when a Kindle was more expensive
> than an XO and Project Gutenberg did not have much support for PDF (the only
> format the Read Activity could use at the time). I had a lot more time to work
> on Sugar code and documentation back then. I don't remember how.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:06 PM, James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     G'day James,
> 
>     Line 476 of your ReadEtextsActivity.py changes the accelerator for the
>     stop button to '<Ctrl><Shift>Q', but the default in Sugar is
>     '<Ctrl>Q', and the only activities that ought not use the default are
>     those where ctrl-q has special meaning, such as Terminal.
> 
>     References:
> 
>     [3]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Hotkeys
>     [4]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/
>     activity/widgets.py#L87
> 
>     For speech, is there any reason you can't use the speech module in the
>     sugar-toolkit-gtk3 package?
> 
>     [5]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/
>     speech.py
> 
>     Thanks for the gitorious pointer, I wasn't aware which source control
>     repository you were using.  Everybody else has moved to GitHub, but nobody
>     has taken down Sugar Labs gitorious yet, perhaps there are others like
>     you still using it.
> 
>     Your activity/[6]activity.info file can have a new field for that;
> 
>     repository = <URL>
>    
>     On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 08:11:39PM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>     > James,
>     >
>     > I tested on Fedora 23 Workstation. The speech feature works OK there. I
>     don't
>     > think I'm doing anything with Ctrl-q.
>     >
>     > This is the code that I think is being complained about when it disables
>     > speech:
>     >
>     > [1][7]http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py
>     >
>     > The line is:
>     >
>     > Gst.ElementFactory.make('espeak')
>     >
>     > I see similar lines elsewhere where a second argument is used, specifying
>     > source or sink.
>     >
>     > I'll give this another try later, probably tomorrow evening. Don't
>     release this
>     > version.
>     >
>     > I could use some clarification on what ctrl-q is supposed to do. I
>     haven't done
>     > Sugar coding for something like three years and this sounds new.
>     >
>     > James Simmons
>     >
>     > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:18 PM, James Cameron <[2][8]quozl at laptop.org>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Sugar Labs Activities
>     wrote:
>     >     > [3][9]http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29159/
>     read_etexts-27.xo
>     >
>     >     Tested briefly on Fedora 20.
>     >
>     >     1.  the ctrl-q short cut does not work, an older ctrl-shift-q does,
>     >
>     >     2.  no speech feature seen,
>     >
>     >     3.  functional test passed, downloaded Emma by Jane Austen,
>     >
>     >     Logs: [4][10]http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1aNUoS.txt
>     >
>     >     --
>     >     James Cameron
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>     >
>     > References:
>     >
>     > [1] [14]http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/
>     speech.py
>     > [2] mailto:[15]quozl at laptop.org
>     > [3] [16]http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29159/
>     read_etexts-27.xo
>     > [4] [17]http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1aNUoS.txt
>     > [5] [18]http://quozl.netrek.org/
>     > [6] mailto:[19]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>     > [7] [20]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> 
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>     James Cameron
>     [21]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] http://activity.info/
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Hotkeys
> [4] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/activity/widgets.py#L87
> [5] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/speech.py
> [6] http://activity.info/
> [7] http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py
> [8] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [9] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29159/read_etexts-27.xo
> [10] http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1aNUoS.txt
> [11] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [12] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [13] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [14] http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py
> [15] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [16] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29159/read_etexts-27.xo
> [17] http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1aNUoS.txt
> [18] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [19] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [20] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [21] http://quozl.netrek.org/

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