Re: [tuxdroid-user] Dedicated sound normalizer / multiplexer daemon

[Florent T. <ft...@gm...>]

> > - handles multiplex / queuing of sound events (the wav merger doesn't
> > seem to me a long-term solution...)
>
> If you make reference to the python merge thing used by gtdi.py, it's not
> meant to play sounds but to store them in the internal flash.

Ok. My apologizes

> > - sound normalization to handle the mouth problem (open/close)

In fact, the speech recognition / sound daemon could do this: if "tux"
is said (indicating the beginning of a spoken "order"), the mouth
opens.

> We should try it with the speech recognition software, I'm not sure that will be a problem for it.

Hope so :)

> Now looking at tux again, I still can't find a good place for the
> microphone. Maybe close to the beak on the side. Time to release the first
> hardware hack ;-)

Well, my first idea would be to put the mic under/inside one wing. I
haven't opened tux yet, it there a wire between the mic and the MB?

> Yes, that was not meant to act as line-in and lin-out at all. Line-out is
> in fact just a headphone output. And line-in is even not connected to the
> computer, it's just a link to the amplifier so you can use tux as a small
> speaker box for your mp3 player. There's no frequency limitation on the
> line-in, it's just plain analog so you should get a better quality when
> using your portable player. The quality is limited by the speaker in this
> case.

Cool :) It's, indeed, a great idea i had'nt thought about: tux as a
"ipod dock" :), batterypowered speaker. And, it creates a
supplementary line out for such a device: listen with tux, record on
the line out. As it's a closed circuit, the sound quality will be
equivalent?

> Hope you get a better idea now.

Yup :)

Dunno if you did read it, but the article
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4723 shows a method where
/dev/speech incarnates the TTS daemon (just do echo "test" >
/dev/speech). I find it a quick and simple solution. Again,
Cvoicecontrol is what we want: not really speech recognition, but
voice-driven command launching. And it's perfect. Too bad it's
unmaintained...