<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 24.02.2010, at 09:29, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div>On 23.02.2010, at 16:46, Jean Baptiste Arnaud wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">it seems, klatt is a vocal synthesis system build in 1980, <br>
<div>is it still use ? Then if yes for what ?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not really I think, except for demos.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">is it in default vm's plugins?</span></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> then if yes why ?</span></div>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Because there is no compelling reason to exclude it.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Bert, I am completely newbie with this stuff, but if it is a "vocal synthesis system", and my application doesn't need that (maybe 90% of applications don't need that), isn't that a reason to exclude it by default and those 10% to explicitly include it ?<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Mariano </div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>No. When you ship an application you could easily exclude it (if indeed you worry about a few KByte in a multi-Megabyte application). But when you just want to learn about it, it is rather hard to get it unless it's built-in.</div><div><br></div><div>To try it today you just need to install the Speech package in your image. If the plugin was not there, you would have to learn about compiling a Virtual Machine for your platform, which most Squeak developers have no intention of ever doing.</div><div><br></div><div>
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