Author archives: Mike

Since the point of Listener is to allow for coding, the language model needs to reflect how one would dictate code. Further, to get reasonable accuracy I'm hoping to tightly focus the language models so that your language model for project X reflects the identifiers (and operators, etc) you are using in that project. To ...

So at some point I need the voice dictation client to be able to do basic interactions with applications on the desktop (think typing text and the like). So how do I go about doing that? I want to be compatible with Wayland when it shows up, but still work on X (since that's where ...

I spent the day working on Listener. The bulk of the work was just cleanup, getting TODO items set up, fixing the setup script, etc. The actual task of voice dictation didn't get moved very far (I got a trivial "correct that") event working, but it doesn't actually make anything happen.

I also started ...

So you have an audio stream where you'd like to get a human-friendly readout of the current audio level. You add a level component, but how do you actually get the level messages it generates?

            bus.add_signal_watch()
            bus.connect( 'message', self.on_level )

It really seems that you *should* be able to use element.connect(), but there doesn't seem ...

Since I got asked about this in email I'll post it here for the google-verse. Say you want to allow your developers to use RunSnakeRun running in a virtualenv on an Ubuntu distribution.  You'll recall that normally to run RSR as a utility you do:

$ sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8
$ pip install --user SquareMap ...

So you have an internal device the web-gui of which you want authenticated users to be able to access.  You've got nginx running on the front-end server. You're willing to open up a port on the outside firewall, but all access on that port needs to go through your main web-app's permissions. You setup an ...

There is a very minor new release on PyPi to allow Squaremap (and thus RunSnakeRun) to run on wxPython 3.0.0. The only people likely to be affected are those on bleeding-edge distros (Gentoo, Arch) or Windows.  You should be able to

pip install --update SquareMap

To get the latest version. Thanks to Kristof for the ...

After far too long, and way more changes than originally intended, PyOpenGL 3.1.0 final is now out. The big changes are:

So I've been doing a spike test with a project where I'm trying to use React.js to build a front-end to a Django application. The bulk of this application is basic Django forms, posts, page-loads, etc. but there's a number of complex views for scheduling, content uploading etc. As of now I think I'm willing ...

So the source of the segfaults that I'm seeing on fglrx and FreeGLUT on Kubuntu 14.04 has come to light. It's a known issue with the registration of FreeGLUT and fglrx at-exit handers (at the C level). You can work around it in your own code with PyOpenGL 3.1.0b3+ (which is still pending release) using: ...