* Prpared For Release As Open Source:
Mon Jan 18 11:51:16 PST 2010
Martin Luther King Day 2010.
The work describing AsTeR was presented to the faculty at Cornell
for my PhD on
Monday, Jan 17, 1994 (Martin Luther King Day)
** Contents
this directory contains a cleaned version of AsTeR
Clean ==
1) throw away unnecessary code.
2) Work under clisp and lucid.
** Terms
This code is is as-is --- i.e. it comes with no support.
** Brief Usage Instructions
***Pre-Requisites:
1. CLisp --- I am using
clisp Version: 1:2.44.1-4.1ubuntu2
2. emacs --- I am using Emacs 23, though older Emacsuns will
probably work, given that the code was written a long time
ago.
3. DEC-Talk Express for speech synthesis.
*** Starting Up
1. Add <aster-math>/lisp-code/vanila-interface to your emacs load-path.
2. M-x load-library run-lisp-setup
3. M-x aster to start up CLisp and load the code. First time
around might take a couple of mins as the code compiles.
4. Build the lexical analyser in <aster-math>/lisp-code/lexer
by:
:cd lisp-code/lexer; make
5. Open the sample text.tex file in Emacs.
6. Mark a region of the document --- e.g., everything between
the begn{document} and end{document} lines --- note: region
*should not* contain the begin/end lines
7. Invoke emacs command read-aloud-region via key C-b C-d
8. AsTeR should start reading the document. Use the AsTeR
browser commands available on C-b to navigate and listen.
9. For seeing available keystrokes in the browser, press C-b C-h.
10. If you want to use this code with other TTS engines, you
will need to write the necessary code.