<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi list,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've toyed around with Ratts quite a bit and when you do have the help files it makes everything seem more complicated than it really is. So, here's a little patch that contains the bare essentials that you need to do start experimenting with Ratts:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>ratsass.pd:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>#N canvas 87 74 462 312 10;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 259 232 dac~;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 221 96 guessphones;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 221 179 klatt~;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 335 105 tgl 15 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1 -1 1</DIV><DIV>1;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 220 117 phones2holmes f;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 271 203 freeverb~;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 335 125 metro 15;</DIV><DIV>#X msg 155 120 basec \$1;</DIV><DIV>#X floatatom 155 102 5 0 0 0 - - -;</DIV><DIV>#X msg 14 7 I wanna be your witch doktah oh yeah;</DIV><DIV>#X msg 142 148 f0decl 20;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 216 140 holmes f0decl 0 topc -30;</DIV><DIV>#X msg 14 49 this is SO crazy;</DIV><DIV>#X msg 14 28 yo homes;</DIV><DIV>#X msg 14 71 browthoom koma blessooth yoelin;</DIV><DIV>#X obj 334 85 loadbang;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 1 0 4 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 2 0 0 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 2 0 0 1;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 2 0 5 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 3 0 6 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 4 0 11 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 5 0 0 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 5 1 0 1;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 6 0 11 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 7 0 11 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 8 0 7 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 9 0 1 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 10 0 11 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 11 0 2 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 12 0 1 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 13 0 1 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 14 0 1 0;</DIV><DIV>#X connect 15 0 3 0;</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 2-Jun-07, at 5:53 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 10:15 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hallo,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There is an external for Festival Lite - think it's called flite; was<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tricky to compile the last time I used it; it renders sentences to audio<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in tables iirc - was a while ago I tried it.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I think pd-radio used it<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">too, but I could be wrong...</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There also is ratts, which is very cool.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">i found the external in:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><pd-cvs>/abstractions/rradical/instruments/speakerboxx/ratts.pd_linux</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">but i couldn't find a help file. also when i create it, i get the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">message:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ratts: Realtime Analog Text-To-Speech externals v0.04 by Bryan Jurish</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ratts: Based on text-to-speech code by Nick Ing-Simmons and Jon Iles</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ratts: and PD external code by Orm Finnendahl and Travis Newhouse</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">but the object doesn't get any inlets nor outlets. maybe you can tell us</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a bit more about this external?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; 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