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RE: [ECS] TTS of weather A.J. Griglak Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:20:12 -0500

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Every other line was blank...  Maybe it's a by-product of the HTML
formatting.  I also parse out a team report for the N.J. Devils, and it,
also come out 'double spaced'  For example:


----snip----
The Devils' unbeaten streak against the archrival New York

Rangers reached 19 games following Wednesday's 4-1 victory. New

Jersey is 13-0-6 against the Rangers since January 12, 1997.
----snip---

That was taken directly from the output of EDM by cut and paste.  The TTS
will pause at a blank line, but won't pause if there isn't a blank in
between - i.e. the "End of Line" won't cause a pause.  I tried playing with
the CRLF command listed in the edm.hlp file, but it kept giving an error
message:  "Bad op-code"  Supposedly this command will toggle between saving
the file with a <CR> and a <LF> at the end of each line.

But, as I said before, it works close enough for me!

-=A.J.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:omnip@usit.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:23 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] TTS of weather


I don't know what a "double-spaced format" is,
but EDM saves files in straight ASCII text
(no "special" formatting of any kind).
--
Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026


A.J. Griglak wrote:
>
> Well, after about an hour and a half of tweaking, I am able to get the
> reading of the weather report close to perfect.  Many thanks to Kevin
Keast
> who sent me his script for parsing out the weather info, which most of
this
> is based on.
>
> I also went into the Lexicon for the TTS item and changed the following:
>
> wind - winned
> winds - winneds
> pop - percent of precipitation
> est - eastern standard time
> mon - monday
> tue - tuesday
> wed - wensday  (pronunciation, not spelling  ;-)
> thu - thursday
> fri - friday
> sat - saturday
>
> I didn't put one in for sun, incase the weather report says something like
> 'increasing sun'
>
> I figured out that the pause at the end of the lines was not caused by the
> EOL itself, but because EDM saves the text file in a double-spaced format.
> I came up with the lengthy solution which you'll see below of g:3 / d g:4
/
> d, etc.  I'm sure that there's a shorter way to do this, but frankly, I
got
> tired of reading the edm.hlp and trying to decipher it!!  This way works,
so
> it's good enough for me.  The af command appends a closing sentence for
> "Hank" to read:  "This has been Hank with your local weather repot."  ;-)
>
> -=A.J.
>
> EDM Script:
> bell
> r wpdl.htm
> f MIDDLESEX
> d-
> d
> g:1
> d3
> f =
> d+
> CA/ ... ,
> c/.' ' ..
> c/ .
> g:2
> d
> g:3
> d
> g:4
> d
> g:5
> d
> g:6
> d
> g:7
> d
> g:8
> d
> g:9
> d
> g:10
> d
> g:11
> d
> g:12
> d
> g:13
> d
> g:14
> d
> g:15
> d
> g:16
> d
> b
> af wxend.txt
> w wxtemp.txt
> q

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