Blabberbot V1

[Art]

Blabberbot V1

Hi Guys,
Blabberbot is an experimental text to speech program for plain text files
based on the Flite (Festival lite) speech engine PSP port provided by Mypspdev.

The Flite speech engine has a built in "file to speech" function, but I have taken an approach of
breaking a file down into segments separated by return characters so that these segments can
be printed to the screen, and so the user can also seek forward and back through the file while
the speaking is in progress. Normally, the function that speaks files cannot be interrupted.

Controls are fairly intuitive.
While the text file is being spoken, a progress indicator is displayed at the top of the screen,
and left or right on the Dpad can be used to advance the position in the text file forwards, or
reverse the position. The left and right controls are non responsive during speaking,
so they must be held down to be polled between bursts of speech.

There is no pause button implemented yet.

Rapidshare Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/16645777...ot_V1.zip.html
Megaupload Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JWEGUHS0

Cheers, Art.

[BlackBurd]

OOh so is it like a ebook reader that can actually read text files.
Like you can play a ebook If thats correct then this is awsome(and i dont use that term alot)

[joseph10444]

wow you are making a lot of interesting projects

[Art]

It's pretty basic at the moment. I'd call this an experimental version.

OOh so is it like a ebook reader that can actually read text files.

I don't know if ebooks are usually plain text files, but if they are, then yes :)

[BlackBurd]

It's pretty basic at the moment. I'd call this an experimental version.

I don't know if ebooks are usually plain text files, but if they are, then yes :)

when you pirate them they are.
But most of mine are pmf's.

[califrag]

Art... if you could get this to read eBooks in PDF format you will be TEH AMAZING!!!!!!!

Also, do I see a future PSP Karaoke program in the works ???

[mhorpheox]

Good work Art! you're the best!

On psp slim with cfw 5.00M33 when i exit to blabberbot menu with button home, the psp freeze and i press power off for exit.
It's a bug?

Thank you

[Art]

It doesn't freeze for me, but it's something I can look into by killing the main running loop.

[mhorpheox]

When I exit the program hangs in wait

[dan369]

A pause button would be great, PDFs can (& most to) contain images aswell.

[konungr]

Thank you for this, Art. Keep up the good work.

[Natey]

If you had something that did the reverse, and you could speek into it to make text, although harder it would be pretty cool

Anyway, this will make reading PDF's infinately eaasier

[Art]

Mypspdev also apparently ported pocket Sphinx which does that.

This one won't read PDFs unless you can convert them to plain text somehow.
I don't think any PSP PDF reader actually knows the text it is displaying.

[joseph10444]

I made a simple .DOC file and wrote in it, Hello, my name is john and i like pies.
then i saved it as plain text

and when i found the destination in your program and hit X, the text showed up, but it froze + the memory stick light was lit up solid orange.

then it shut down

[ohlin5]

Just wanted to say that this app is very very cool. I also think that it would be absolutely awesome if you added a feature so that you could make the .txt files on your psp, rather than having to make them on you computer then transfer them. Are there any plans for a feature like this?

Anyway, LOVE THE APP!

Thanks!
-ohlin5

[joseph10444]

@ohlin5
do you mean FROM speech??
if so, that'd be really hard imo
cause there would be spelling errors and such

if you mean type text
you may as well use a simple editor like PSPwrite v1.2.0

[Art]

I made a simple .DOC file and wrote in it, Hello, my name is john and i like pies.
then i saved it as plain text

and when i found the destination in your program and hit X, the text showed up, but it froze + the memory stick light was lit up solid orange.

then it shut down

I think that's because the file is too short.
The currently uploaded program expects a 645 character buffer to be completely filled at least once.
My current working version still suffers the same problem, but the file can be as short as 100 characters.

As this was an experiment just sitting on my HDD for a long time,
the update log once I've started working on it is already pretty good.


Blabberbot V2 (24/11/08):
- Attempted to fix crash on exit problem with late firmware PSP units,
although untested because this isn't a problem with the test unit.
- Backslash character is filtered from speech, but not from text.
- Pause button implemented.
- New Multi threaded operation makes buttons responsive at all times.
- Program no longer splits words if the screen character buffer fills.

I think Intrafont should be the last thing I do, to make sure everything else if fine first.

[Mr305]

Art, This is a WORLD CLASS application!
Great job by mypspdev porting the engine.

Can you add direct text entry and play back with in the application (W/ PSPIRKEYB support? ) ,[ without having to use Text Editors like PSPWrite or PC]? That would be SERIOUSLY COOL to show off :Punk:

[Art]

Yes, but there is already more than one released program that does that.
The old Nanodesktop Flite demo did a good job of it with a nice OSK.

[joseph10444]

okay thank you
ill have to write a whole essay and read it

[Art]

The next release should be ok with a file as small as one word,
just haven't got to that yet.

[Nerd42]

Haven't tried this app out yet but it sounds awesome!

Yeah a pause button would be nice ... and some easy way to switch between this and PSPwrite so it can help people with voice problems speak