[Qi Hardware Discuss] Bard Storyteller 0.7 for Nanonote

Jiří Brožovský jiri.brozovsky at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 14:36:21 EST 2012


Hello Alan,

Thank you very much for this nice update!

I can open some epub files (even with correct text encoding - that's
great!) but the Bard refuses to open other ones (I will try to find
why).

Best regards,
Jiri Brozovsky

2012/3/8, Alan W Black <awb at cs.cmu.edu>:
> Bard Storyteller 0.7
> http://festvox.org/bard/
>
> Bard Storyteller is free software, distributed under a BSD-like
> license.
>
> See http://festvox.org/bard/README for details
>
> New in 0.7 has
> Epub support (and initial image support)
> Text highlighting based on (x)html in epub.
> Bug fixes -- (I used it a lot to read books)
> Fixes in audio streaming so it "gargles" less
> Smooth Scroll fixes
> Cursor hiding
>
> For epub support you must have libzip, SDL_image and SDL_gfx support.
> SDL_image and SDL_gfx are already available on the Ben Nanonote.  An ipk
> package file for libzip is included.
>
> I have standardized the use of the volume key on the nanonote to
> control volume, scroll speed or page up/down depending on whether its
> speaking, scrolling or in idle position.
>
> Note you must update your version of flite (again) to complie 0.7.
> The new support for generalized token streams requires an updated
> version of flite.
>
> The next improvements on the immediate horizon are:
> Better voices (that are fast enough, which is currently our problem)
>     better voices are fully supported on faster platforms
>
> Alan W Black                                email: awb at cs.cmu.edu
> Language Technologies Institute             http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
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