it seems, klatt is a vocal synthesis system build in 1980, is it still use ? Then if yes for what ?
is it in default vm's plugins? then if yes why ?
Regard Jean Baptiste Arnaud jbaptiste.arnaud@gmail.com
On 23.02.2010, at 16:46, Jean Baptiste Arnaud wrote:
it seems, klatt is a vocal synthesis system build in 1980, is it still use ? Then if yes for what ?
Not really I think, except for demos.
is it in default vm's plugins?
Yes.
then if yes why ?
Because there is no compelling reason to exclude it.
- Bert -
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 23.02.2010, at 16:46, Jean Baptiste Arnaud wrote:
it seems, klatt is a vocal synthesis system build in 1980, is it still use ? Then if yes for what ?
Not really I think, except for demos.
is it in default vm's plugins?
Yes.
then if yes why ?
Because there is no compelling reason to exclude it.
Bert, I am completely newbie with this stuff, but if it is a "vocal synthesis system", and my application doesn't need that (maybe 90% of applications don't need that), isn't that a reason to exclude it by default and those 10% to explicitly include it ?
Cheers
Mariano
- Bert -
On 24.02.2010, at 09:29, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 23.02.2010, at 16:46, Jean Baptiste Arnaud wrote:
it seems, klatt is a vocal synthesis system build in 1980, is it still use ? Then if yes for what ?
Not really I think, except for demos.
is it in default vm's plugins?
Yes.
then if yes why ?
Because there is no compelling reason to exclude it.
Bert, I am completely newbie with this stuff, but if it is a "vocal synthesis system", and my application doesn't need that (maybe 90% of applications don't need that), isn't that a reason to exclude it by default and those 10% to explicitly include it ?
Cheers
Mariano
No. When you ship an application you could easily exclude it (if indeed you worry about a few KByte in a multi-Megabyte application). But when you just want to learn about it, it is rather hard to get it unless it's built-in.
To try it today you just need to install the Speech package in your image. If the plugin was not there, you would have to learn about compiling a Virtual Machine for your platform, which most Squeak developers have no intention of ever doing.
- Bert -
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
Bert, I am completely newbie with this stuff, but if it is a "vocal
synthesis system", and my application doesn't need that (maybe 90% of applications don't need that), isn't that a reason to exclude it by default and those 10% to explicitly include it ?
It's a bit offtopic, but shows how a user thinks about this (and other) issue(s), watch it from 00:30:00. http://www.infoq.com/interviews/bryant-smalltalk-trendly
Levente
vm-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
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