Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 169, Issue 5
Dan.
Why not give people a choice...? Fixed or Variable? Or for that matter, any font the system knows about? (Like most other software titles in one form or another...)
Have to say, a fixed width font for me is the way to go in spreadsheets etc, but I suspect that is not what is being talked about. From the few screenshots I've seen of the new version, the default UI is very poor contrast (dark grey on light grey, not good.) (So no doubt making readability much worse than it otherwise could be.)
Still not got the new version to run yet, so "Devils Advocate" mode at the moment. (There again, I never managed to build the old version from source, as I wanted to do for some work on the Puxing PX-2R driver.)
I now have ...
~$ python3.7 -V Python 3.7.5
... working, but I suspect something in the chirp blob is dialling up an earlier version for some reason, and that is preventing the virtual environment from being correctly created. 2.7 and 3 also exist on this system (for various odd reasons, Chirp being one!) I like Python as a language, but the inter-version incompatibilities are becoming a major issue.
Is it even possible at present to have old and new versions co-existing on the same system? (Not urgent, as earlier I know the OS needs upgrading.)
73. Dave G8KBV
On 05/01/2023 20:00, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
If there are users here who prefer the fixed-width font the way it is today, speak up and I'll make a way for you to choose which one is used. If I'm the only one, then I won't bother 😄
For the developers, I'm wondering if there is a way to make it self-voicing? I mean, there can be pre-recorded letters and numbers, and words such as radio models can be spelled out. Some programs such as rockbox for MP3 players use a utility to generate talk clips for the menus and the like. This would allow the visually impaired to continue using this software. Since the implementation of flatpak, I can no longer use Chirp, unless I run an old Linux and old Chirp. Then the sighted would not have to worry about an unpleasant font.
Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave B via chirp_users" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2023 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 169, Issue 5
Dan.
Why not give people a choice...? Fixed or Variable? Or for that matter, any font the system knows about? (Like most other software titles in one form or another...)
Have to say, a fixed width font for me is the way to go in spreadsheets etc, but I suspect that is not what is being talked about. From the few screenshots I've seen of the new version, the default UI is very poor contrast (dark grey on light grey, not good.) (So no doubt making readability much worse than it otherwise could be.)
Still not got the new version to run yet, so "Devils Advocate" mode at the moment. (There again, I never managed to build the old version from source, as I wanted to do for some work on the Puxing PX-2R driver.)
I now have ...
~$ python3.7 -V Python 3.7.5
... working, but I suspect something in the chirp blob is dialling up an earlier version for some reason, and that is preventing the virtual environment from being correctly created. 2.7 and 3 also exist on this system (for various odd reasons, Chirp being one!) I like Python as a language, but the inter-version incompatibilities are becoming a major issue.
Is it even possible at present to have old and new versions co-existing on the same system? (Not urgent, as earlier I know the OS needs upgrading.)
73. Dave G8KBV
On 05/01/2023 20:00, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
If there are users here who prefer the fixed-width font the way it is today, speak up and I'll make a way for you to choose which one is used. If I'm the only one, then I won't bother 😄
------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, January 5th, 2023 at 14:43, K0LNY_Glenn glenn@ervin.email wrote:
For the developers, I'm wondering if there is a way to make it self-voicing?
There are quite a few open source speech synthesis packages out there. They're of varying quality, however. A brief list:
* CMU's flite: http://cmuflite.org/ * Mary TTS: https://github.com/marytts/marytts * GamaTTS: https://mym.eng.br/gama_tts.html * Epos: https://epos.speech.cz/ * Espeak: https://espeak.sourceforge.net/
The nice thing about them is, they're available in many distros' default package repositories. Many of them also have Python bindings.
It may also be possible to use an offboard free speech synthesis service using their native APIs, but that would also require that the machine be online when programming the radios. Not a big deal functionally speaking (if you're pulling from a repeater directory, let's say) but not everybody would be okay with the privacy implications.
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