[Qi Hardware Discuss] Bard Storyteller 0.7 for Nanonote

Alan W Black awb at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Mar 8 16:16:59 EST 2012


On 03/08/12 15:30, Jiří Brožovský wrote:
> 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.

Yes this crashes for me too, I'll take a closer look.

thanks

Alan

>
> 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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