[PD] Text Functions

[RTaylor]

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_toc.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/59014/0
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/emu/emu/README?rev=1.12
http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:46:42 +0100
Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:

> Hallo,
> mdk hat gesagt: // mdk wrote:
> 
> > im no PD expert, but maybe one avenue worth investigating is finding the 
> > appropriate software (hopefully something open-source) that does the 
> > word recognition and spell checking then getting that to send control 
> > data to PD via netsend / netreceive.
> > 
> > Perl seems to be the obvious candidate for its text munging 
> > capabilities, and theres some simple code on the pure-data.org site for 
> > a perl client that can talk to PD.
> > 
> > http://www.pure-data.org/Members/kogger/netperlpd/view
> > 
> > just an idea.
> 
> A good idea IMO - although I would prefer Python as in 
> http://www.pure-data.org/Members/fbar/tools/pdsender.py/view which I
> find easier to learn as well and you could even run it inside Pd. I
> would run it outside, though. 
> 
> Pd's own string handling capabilities are *very* limited. In a more
> text oriented full programming language like Python you get a lot of
> support for string handling, maybe you'll even find a binding directly
> to (i)spell.
> 
> ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
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