Re: [racket] sound.ss teachpack

2011-07-19 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Thanks for the update. -- Matthias On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:03 PM, John Riedl wrote: > Matthias: > > Thank you for your explanation. I've gotten speak-word and speak-list > working now. There were several challenges: > > 1. HtDP talks about sound.ss. There is a sound.ss distributed with > ra

Re: [racket] sound.ss teachpack

2011-07-19 Thread John Riedl
Matthias: Thank you for your explanation. I've gotten speak-word and speak-list working now. There were several challenges: 1. HtDP talks about sound.ss. There is a sound.ss distributed with racket 5.1.1, but it's the deinprogramm version, which supports completely different commands. If you

Re: [racket] sound.ss teachpack

2011-07-19 Thread Stephan Houben
If you don't mind relying on an external program you can install espeak ( http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) and then simply do: (define (speak text) (system* (find-executable-path "espeak") text)) (speak "Hello world") Stephan On 07/19/2011 04:28 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: Well, yes, if you

Re: [racket] sound.ss teachpack

2011-07-18 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Well, yes, if you solve the problem and plug the solution into the teachpack as advertised, you get to hear Stephanie Weirich pronounce the numbers. -- Matthias On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:28 PM, John Riedl wrote: > Thanks. The sound.ss install worked fine from Windows 7, and plays > .wav files, a

Re: [racket] sound.ss teachpack

2011-07-18 Thread John Riedl
Thanks. The sound.ss install worked fine from Windows 7, and plays .wav files, as advertised. What I was going from to expect speak-word and speak-list was this quote from HtDP: --- Once the controller returns the correct list for amounts whose dollar and cent amounts are between 0 and 2

Re: [racket] sound.ss teachpack

2011-07-18 Thread Matthias Felleisen
That's all our sound teachpack ever did. The old one is located at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP/Sound/ As you can see, it hasn't been maintained in a while. Sorry, let us know if it works [I don't have time right now to try.] On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:44 PM, John Riedl wrote: >