640x480 screen, fast processor with no floating point unit,
128 meg of ram, half gig of storage, super light- What a machine!
When my Apple Duo 280 was new, it contained two killer applications:
MicNotePad could record hours of voice in a few megabytes, and Apple\'s
own text to speech software, which with the Victoria voice and speech
f-key remains unrivaled by anything I have heard.
Both could play audio at variable speeds, while keeping the pitch
constant. If you concentrate, you can more than double the speed with
full, perhaps even improved, comprehension.
Do we have anything like that on the Zaurus?
Flite does tts,
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/and I have seen posts about changing the speed of Festival.
From a post by Deadhead near the end of this thread
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4...tival&start=100 from /usr/lib/festival/siteinit.scm
(Parameter.set \'Audio_Method \'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set \'Audio_Command "sox -t raw -sw -r $SR $FILE -c2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp speed 0.6 vol 1.9")Can we do something like this on the Zaurus even though the Flite docs
don\'t mention support for such reconfigurability in the program
itself? Control the speed of the dsp?
The only voice recorder I have seen makes huge files, limited to 30
seconds at a time.
In
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel Delaney described a
device that let the user at high speed absorb the contents of
civilizations stored on chips smaller than a fingernail. This could be
the Zaurus!
