Thread: [Tuxpaint-stamps] New: Descriptive audio for stamps!
An award-winning drawing program for children of all ages
Brought to you by:
wkendrick
From: Bill K. <nb...@so...> - 2006-08-26 23:49:44
|
You may now create a second sound file for stamps, which is currently used as descriptive spoken text. The sound is played after any sound effect finishes playing. (So for example, you click the 'rooster' stamp and it first plays the crowing rooster sound effect, then it will say "A rooster.") These sounds may be localized, as well. In fact, currently the ONLY kinds of sounds like this are in Catalan. ("ca" locale.) The filename simply has "_desc" or "_desc_ll" (where "ll" is the locale) at the end of the filename, before the extension, e.g.: rooster_desc.ogg <-- default (english), in OGG format rooster_desc_es.wav <-- spanish, in WAV format This is in CVS. Get the latest 'tuxpaint' and 'tuxpaint-stamps' modules. Note: I haven't tested it thoroughly, as I need to run and take care of my wife Melissa! Please let me know if you find any glaring issues. :) -- -bill! bi...@ne... http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ |
From: Albert C. <aca...@gm...> - 2006-09-10 21:29:15
|
On 8/26/06, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote: > > You may now create a second sound file for stamps, which is currently used > as descriptive spoken text. The sound is played after any sound effect > finishes playing. (So for example, you click the 'rooster' stamp and > it first plays the crowing rooster sound effect, then it will say > "A rooster.") > > These sounds may be localized, as well. In fact, currently the ONLY > kinds of sounds like this are in Catalan. ("ca" locale.) > > The filename simply has "_desc" or "_desc_ll" (where "ll" is the locale) > at the end of the filename, before the extension, e.g.: Now THIS is something that belongs in a different package. In fact, it belongs in multiple language-specific packages. It's damn big. Tux Paint won't fit on a CD-ROM anymore, even with good compression. Mind putting it in a separate CVS tree even? Please??? I really don't want to download all this, even with a nice cable modem connection. I don't want to store it. If people use WAV format, Tux Paint might not even fit on a DVD. If the sounds are all loaded into memory, from WAV or uncompressed from OGG, a 64-bit machine will be required. |
From: Bill K. <nb...@so...> - 2006-09-10 21:57:53
|
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:27:29PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Now THIS is something that belongs in a different package. > In fact, it belongs in multiple language-specific packages. > It's damn big. Tux Paint won't fit on a CD-ROM anymore, > even with good compression. It has so far added "only" 3MB of data. The current Tux Paint Stamps .tar.gz comes in at 14MB. It is, in fact, 1.1MB smaller than the latest (2005.11.25) released .tar.gz, despite the new descriptive sounds and some new stamps. (The smaller size is probably mostly due to the fact that all previous WAVs were compressed into OGGs.) > Mind putting it in a separate CVS tree even? Please??? What's the best way of going about this, while still keeping the directory structure the same between modules? > I really don't want to download all this, even with a nice > cable modem connection. I don't want to store it. > > If people use WAV format, Tux Paint might not even fit > on a DVD. I'm trying to make sure WAVs are all converted to OGG, for both descriptive (spoken) sounds and for sound effects. The biggest spoken OGG is less than 25KB. Most are 5-10KB. > If the sounds are all loaded into memory, > from WAV or uncompressed from OGG, a 64-bit machine > will be required. That's a good point. Of course, in the future, Tux Paint won't load ALL stamps (and their sounds) into memory at once, anyway. They'd only load a particular subset, based on some categorization. (That's always been the plan. Unfortunately, there are still so few stamps that it's been managable without this addition to the UI.) -- -bill! bi...@ne... http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ |