Comments for Weston Ruter http://weston.ruter.net Web application developer in Portland, Oregon Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on HTML5 Audio Read-Along by Harry Pannu http://weston.ruter.net/projects/html5-audio-read-along/comment-page-1/#comment-42991 Harry Pannu Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:07:07 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=236#comment-42991 Weston, I have already skimmed through most of your posts as I was looking for a solution for myself. I just added a message of my own about how I got MP3 working with Sphinx for everyone's good. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/forums/forum/382337/topic/4787012?message=10898990 Weston,

I have already skimmed through most of your posts as I was looking for a solution for myself. I just added a message of my own about how I got MP3 working with Sphinx for everyone’s good.

See https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/forums/forum/382337/topic/4787012?message=10898990

]]> Comment on HTML5 Audio Read-Along by Weston Ruter http://weston.ruter.net/projects/html5-audio-read-along/comment-page-1/#comment-42987 Weston Ruter Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:57:41 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=236#comment-42987 @Harry: The cue points are not reliable enough yet for me. Maybe things have improved since last time I tried, but compare the results of aligning John 1 and John 3: https://github.com/westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner/blob/master/reports/John.1 https://github.com/westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner/blob/master/reports/John.3 John 3 gets extremely misaligned. See more information in the last post on the Sphinx forums: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/forums/forum/382337/topic/4503550 @Harry:
The cue points are not reliable enough yet for me. Maybe things have improved since last time I tried, but compare the results of aligning John 1 and John 3:
https://github.com/westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner/blob/master/reports/John.1
https://github.com/westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner/blob/master/reports/John.3

John 3 gets extremely misaligned. See more information in the last post on the Sphinx forums: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/forums/forum/382337/topic/4503550

]]> Comment on HTML5 Audio Read-Along by Harry Pannu http://weston.ruter.net/projects/html5-audio-read-along/comment-page-1/#comment-42985 Harry Pannu Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:41:27 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=236#comment-42985 Did you ever need to tweak the cue points generated by Sphinx? I am working on a web app that is suppose to auto generate cue points for a given script and audio file on the click of a button in the web interface. On top it should have an "easy-to-use" interface for editors to manually correct any errors. After struggling for several days, at the end, it turned out to be pretty simple to get the MP3 decoding working with Sphinx. I would be happy to provide you the specifics if interested in trying it. It will be comforting to know that it works for you as well. Did you ever need to tweak the cue points generated by Sphinx? I am working on a web app that is suppose to auto generate cue points for a given script and audio file on the click of a button in the web interface. On top it should have an “easy-to-use” interface for editors to manually correct any errors.

After struggling for several days, at the end, it turned out to be pretty simple to get the MP3 decoding working with Sphinx. I would be happy to provide you the specifics if interested in trying it. It will be comforting to know that it works for you as well.

]]> Comment on HTML5 Audio Read-Along by Weston Ruter http://weston.ruter.net/projects/html5-audio-read-along/comment-page-1/#comment-42974 Weston Ruter Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:13:29 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=236#comment-42974 @Harry: In my Sphinx4 attempt, I did indeed convert from MP3 to WAV first. I wasn't able to get Sphinx to work with MP3. However, my build script automatically converts the MP3s to WAV format before passing into Sphinx, so it's no extra labor. See https://github.com/westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner/blob/master/align.py#L120 @Harry:
In my Sphinx4 attempt, I did indeed convert from MP3 to WAV first. I wasn’t able to get Sphinx to work with MP3. However, my build script automatically converts the MP3s to WAV format before passing into Sphinx, so it’s no extra labor. See https://github.com/westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner/blob/master/align.py#L120

]]> Comment on HTML5 Audio Read-Along by Harry Pannu http://weston.ruter.net/projects/html5-audio-read-along/comment-page-1/#comment-42973 Harry Pannu Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:09:43 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=236#comment-42973 Weston, In your attempt to use Sphinx4, were you able to get word cue points directly from MP3 or did you convert MP3 to WAV format first? I am trying to make Sphinx4 use MP3 directly to save the labor of WAV conversion. I am getting good results. I would like to exchange information with you hoping it will benefit both of us. Looking forward to hear from you. Thanks, Harry Pannu Weston,

In your attempt to use Sphinx4, were you able to get word cue points directly from MP3 or did you convert MP3 to WAV format first? I am trying to make Sphinx4 use MP3 directly to save the labor of WAV conversion. I am getting good results. I would like to exchange information with you hoping it will benefit both of us. Looking forward to hear from you.

Thanks,
Harry Pannu

]]> Comment on Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) by Nathan Schofield http://weston.ruter.net/projects/google-tts/comment-page-1/#comment-41354 Nathan Schofield Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:11:51 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=226#comment-41354 Hi all, I am studying chinese language and want to be able to download sounds so I can then upload them to my flash card player. Is anyone able to help show me how I would maybe enter either chinese characters/pinyin somewhere and then be able to download the mp3? Would really appreaciate your help - I'm no coder by the way. Cheers Hi all,

I am studying chinese language and want to be able to download sounds so I can then upload them to my flash card player. Is anyone able to help show me how I would maybe enter either chinese characters/pinyin somewhere and then be able to download the mp3?

Would really appreaciate your help – I’m no coder by the way.

Cheers

]]> Comment on SchemaGraph: Visualizing Complex Databases by TimP http://weston.ruter.net/projects/schemagraph/comment-page-1/#comment-40029 TimP Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:18:40 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=60#comment-40029 I have just installed and used this, and mentioned on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3794435/show-sql-script-using-graphviz/8081147 Really very fast and an interesting way addressing the problem of database visualisation. cheers Tim I have just installed and used this, and mentioned on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3794435/show-sql-script-using-graphviz/8081147

Really very fast and an interesting way addressing the problem of database visualisation.

cheers
Tim

]]> Comment on CSS Transitions via jQuery Animations by Pedro Santos http://weston.ruter.net/projects/jquery-css-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-39344 Pedro Santos Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:24:32 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=95#comment-39344 Hi again Weston. Been trying to get everything to work on IE but with no success. Keep getting 'undefined' error on IE8 and 9, as well as an error related to bindings.php (the object do not support this property or method). Is anybody else having this problems? Cheers. Hi again Weston.
Been trying to get everything to work on IE but with no success.
Keep getting ‘undefined’ error on IE8 and 9, as well as an error related to bindings.php (the object do not support this property or method).

Is anybody else having this problems?

Cheers.

]]> Comment on CSS Transitions via jQuery Animations by Pedro Santos http://weston.ruter.net/projects/jquery-css-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-36326 Pedro Santos Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:52:20 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=95#comment-36326 Hi Weston. First of all, let me thank you for this plugin. I'm having a little trouble in IE9 with it though - It keeps throwing this error when debugging: <code> SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property 'replace': object is null or undefined jquery.css-transitions.min.js, line 8 character 3121 </code> Can you help me out on this? Thank you. Hi Weston.
First of all, let me thank you for this plugin.

I’m having a little trouble in IE9 with it though – It keeps throwing this error when debugging:

SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property 'replace': object is null or undefined
jquery.css-transitions.min.js, line 8 character 3121

Can you help me out on this?
Thank you.

]]> Comment on Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) by Sunjen http://weston.ruter.net/projects/google-tts/comment-page-1/#comment-36293 Sunjen Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:06:59 +0000 http://weston.ruter.net/?page_id=226#comment-36293 Anybody knows if they plan to publish the tts libraries to use in a PC program? that would be awesome for me.. TTS voices a either bad sounding or too expensive. Anybody knows if they plan to publish the tts libraries to use in a PC program? that would be awesome for me.. TTS voices a either bad sounding or too expensive.

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