Hi! I'm new and: Help with a college project, please:

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> I'm concieving a project for my course which harvests text from the
> internet, parses it, and then [via max] converts it into audio
> [music?] .
>
> Does anyone know something sutible for me to check out?
>

Ah, you see:

I want the display to update letter by letter so every letter that appears corrosponds to the sound produced.

So when you Hear a sound, you See the letter that just produced it blink up on screen.

Think if the word 'hello' was dipped down, you would hear the o first, then the l, l, e, h ... at the same time the word 'hello' would be 'spelled' onto the display.

Thanks, Johnny, too, I'll look into them. Just got the Jitter demo as I've been told it's more suitible for this.

I looked at some patches made for adding subtitles to video, they look in the right direction: the display updates line by line, rather than appending a new letter and then scrolling along, though.

> Thanks, Johnny, too, I'll look into them. Just got the Jitter demo
> as I've been told it's more suitible for this.

the objects i mentioned are basic objects you'll need to deal with
the letters themselves at some level.
(which is what you asked for specifically :)

the rest, it all really depends on what you want to hear & see
there a million ways to go about making sound from text
(sonification from the 'image' of the text, assigning samples to
specific letters, fm synthesis, text to speech synthesis, and it goes
on & on) -- of course jitter is the way you to go to display the
letters, and perhaps matrix operations are an interesting way to turn
image into sound as it goes...

good luck

deKam

Yep. The myriad of option I have with the text-sound is great. I've only had experience with max for audio so far though so what I imagined might be easy [the text] is turning out to have it's own myriad of options.

But I just need to get the basics of what I don't know sorted.

SO. an update.

It's going OK. I built a passable prototype, but I have this really annoying bug.

90% of the times I load the patch it gives the error 'error: text: no such object'.

text is an object which comes preinstalled, and I don't know how to fix this, it's really annoying, the patch doesn't work without the text object.

Help!

Let me just state first that I've tried this on a few different systems and it seems to be random.

On 28 mai 07, at 13:49, arithmetek wrote:

> Let me just state first that I've tried this on a few different
> systems and it seems to be random.

Hi,

Look into your search path. and rename every files named "text".

HTH,
ej

so I made a program and uses a javascript to pick up files that we
downloaded by the googlr object or the jit.uldid presently
then the parser comes in and threshes for links, pics, and uh I guess words
3 colls to tall
then you can confirm a link into a new search or post the pictures and such
in a gooey environment or synchronix into music,

www.vcnet.com/~franz/max/netweb.htm