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From: Chris Ridd on 27 May 2010 10:04 On 2010-05-27 14:52:00 +0100, Elliott Roper said: > For Chris Ridd:- I'm working on [[ inpt TUNE ]] to get Alex talking > Australian? You can buy extra (regional) voices from somewhere can't you? ISTR James posting a link to some a while ago. So give Alex the boot, and see if there's a Jiff or even just a better Bruce. -- Chris
From: Woody on 27 May 2010 10:15 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Andrew Collier <spambucket(a)intensity.org.uk> wrote: > > > To convert a whole folder of files at the same time, you'd do something > > like: > > find . -name "*.txt" -exec say -f '{}' -o '{}'.m4a ';' > > Thanks for that. > > i didn't want to create any speech files, but I needed to remember how > to resize a group of 500x500 jpgs to 62x62 and the start part was what I > needed, ie: > > find .. -name "*.jpg" -exec convert -resize 62x62 '{}' '{}'.1 ';' So on that (which I have done) I had a bit of a problem with filenames. The line above will end up with lots of files called blah.jpg.1 which I thought I could just batch rename, although that didn't work as well as I thought. What I realy wanted was them prefixed, so the code could find them. If I did: find . -name "*.jpg" -exec convert -resize 62x62 '{}' s_'{}' ';' it failed saying htings like: Can't open file s_ ./blah.jpg How would I have done that? In the end I just copied them to another folder where they were included in xcode, then ran it on the same filenames in and out and that was fine. -- Woody
From: Jim on 27 May 2010 10:22 On 2010-05-27, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-05-27 14:52:00 +0100, Elliott Roper said: > >> For Chris Ridd:- I'm working on [[ inpt TUNE ]] to get Alex talking >> Australian? > > You can buy extra (regional) voices from somewhere can't you? ISTR > James posting a link to some a while ago. > > So give Alex the boot, and see if there's a Jiff or even just a better Bruce. If you could get a HAL9000 voice (Douglas Rain) I'd really like that. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Basil Jet on 27 May 2010 11:10 On 27/05/2010 14:52, Elliott Roper wrote: > In article<4bfe6e07$0$27999$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, Basil Jet > <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks to everyone. > > Ace! This thread was an example of ucsm working as designed. I learned > a lot from Andrew Collier's bash magic spells, and felt motivated > enough to chase down some dimly remembered stuff from the days of > Plaintalk on MacOS mumble for the pausing malarkey. I forgot to mention... I used to be a Unix programmer, but have used nothing but PCs for the last 20 years. Having just moved to a Mac I have been feeling very out of my depth. Using the Terminal shell has turned this odd white slab into a machine that I control and understand... so a special big thanks to Mr Collier for that!
From: Chris Ridd on 27 May 2010 12:15
On 2010-05-27 15:15:47 +0100, Woody said: > If I did: > > find . -name "*.jpg" -exec convert -resize 62x62 '{}' s_'{}' ';' > > it failed saying htings like: > Can't open file s_ ./blah.jpg Because find adds the directory you're starting from (ie ".") to the front of every filename. > How would I have done that? I'd use a shell loop, and sed if I really wanted to munge the filename (like changing extensions), something like this: for jpeg in *.jpg; do fixed=`echo "$jpeg" | sed -e 's/^/s_/'` convert -resize 62x62 "$jpeg" "$fixed" done -- Chris |