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[Linux for blind general discussion]

Look at this part and tell me if this is cross platform.

"* When you are happy, convert it to a Flite voice.
* Grab the .c and .h files that the Flite voice generation scripts produce.
* You can now use Flite to do your synthesis, and Flite runs on a lot of 
different platforms since it is written in portable C.'

And now look at my post here.

'So I decided to try this on my Vinux since it runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 
which is what you seem to have, and since it is on a virtual machine, I 
could probably do it that way rather than having to pay more to increase 
my server's RAM, though I might have to as my web site grows and PHP is 
more on demand.'

I have full audio access on my Vinux using VM Workstation. If there 
wasn't audio access I wouldn't hear Orca and some of the other sounds.

I heard that the raspberry Pi is something very similar to how you 
described.

When I said that it sounded as though I were trying to interpret chinese 
was in reference to this.

'Let alone whatever else one might install, e.g. mplayer, irssi, gdb,
etc., etc.' There are some abbreviations I am not familiar with.

-Ulysses


On 12/15/2017 10:02 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Building and testing are entirely different things. Getting something 
> to work is a further difference, as passing unit tests doesn't even 
> mean that the built speech synthesizer will work, especially if it 
> can't access an audio device. Think of it this way. You have a 
> computer with no keyboard or mouse on it. You can turn it on, and you 
> know it runs, either because you can hear the speech or other startup 
> sound, or because you can see the screen. You may even be able to 
> access a shell and/or some other parts of the OS remotely. You have 
> built a typing tutor application, but it only runs locally, and 
> there's no way to access it and make it accept input over a network 
> connection. Of course the application builds perfectly, and you can 
> even say that it passes unit tests. But how do you test it in the real 
> world without a keyboard on the machine and no way for it to accept 
> remote input?
>
> And now you have a further complication. Are you trying to build a 
> speech synthesizer that runs on Linux, or are you trying to build it 
> for Windows? A Linux build will only run on Linux, unless you have a 
> cross compiler that can generate Windows compatible machine code. If 
> you think I'm speaking Chinese here, do yourself a favor and don't try 
> this. If on the other hand you're actually trying to build for Linux, 
> you will need a real Linux OS for testing that includes audio output. 
> If you are in fact trying to build a Windows compatible speech 
> synthesizer, you can't use Linux for that, not even the half-baked 
> Linux over Windows solution, because you will need certain Windows 
> libraries and subsystems, SAPI for example, that don't run unmodified 
> or unemulated on Linux. So it's definitely better to use windows 
> development tools on a Windows machine to build for that system, or 
> use Linux development tools running on a real Linux operating system 
> with an audio device available to build for Linux.
> Imetumwa kutoka nyumba yangu
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