I'm getting back into the coding groove. Just for fun, last night I integrated the FreeTTS engine into the NetBeans Platform.
The module does 4 things:
Integrates the engine
Provides an extension point in its layer file for new voices
Provides an options dialog for selecting a voice
Provides an API hook for speaking a String in the current voice. Thus it would be trivial...
In light of the article presented in the Journal of Defense Software Engineering, and the responses it has generated, I just couldn't resist throwing my 2 cents in, particularly as I'm killing time between job interviews.
If you haven't been following this debate, let me recap. Some Ada experts are saying that the growing monoculture of Java in college curricula is damaging the quality...
At Geertjan's suggestion, I tried his Youtube modules with my JDIC integration. Worked out of the box, no problem. I didn't have to change a thing. Nice when that happens, eh?
To jump back into programming, and to familiarize myself with the new release of NetBeans, I've updated the jdic-netbeans integration. Here you can see the browser embedded in NB, replacing the default "Swing browser".
There's still some issues with the integration that I've never managed to tackle, relating to heavyweight-lightweight component mixing. The browser doesn't handle...
