[Qi Hardware Discuss] Bard Storyteller 0.7 for Nanonote

Jiří Brožovský jiri.brozovsky at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 15:30:09 EST 2012


Dear Alan,

for example, ePub files from this page:
http://palmknihy.cz/free/index.php?SEARCH=easy&cat=10
The third file from top (Rukopis Královédvorský - an ePub version, of course )
just makes Bard to quit. These files are without DRM.

Many thanks for you work.

Best regards,
Jiri Brozovsky


2012/3/8, Alan W Black <awb at cs.cmu.edu>:
> Jiří Brožovský wrote:
>> 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).
>
> I tried this on a whole bunch of epub files, and tried to follow the
> standard for reading files (I haven't followed the whole standard but
> thought I was close).
>
> I'm not surprised that there are some it doesn't work on.  If you can
> email the file (assuming you can legally do that), I'll take a closer look.
>
> Note I can't deal with DRM's files (and probably never will be able to
> do that), but I should at least tell the user its DRM'd.
>
> thanks
>
> Alan
>
>
>>
>> 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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