Text To Speech GSoC'21
The time that takes to build projects described in high-level language are usually underestimated, while the time that takes to take a step back, and solve a smaller problems (like figuring out the syntax) are overestimated
Yesterday, my tactic was to search for “const char *” and print the text from the functions that have it. Today, I changed my method to printing just the text, and searching “const char *text”, so that I didn’t need to modify the debug message every time I searched. Besides, for which function it comes … Read moreFOUND !!! New text search algorithm
Another week is coming, and I don’t ever seem to find the right time to do documentation. Partly because it always seems that time is better spent on coding (or finding variables) so everything is on progress. In the notion of “something is better than nothing”, here are a few lines to keep track of … Read moreLooking Forward to Week 4
Although I would prefer updating on every Tuesday, I figured that today (Sunday) is a good day because I need to think about next steps again, so why not spend time documenting instead. Recent progress. Including but NOT limited to….. – Learned how to modify previous commit with gitThis includes editing the message, committed files, … Read moreQuick Update: 13 days into coding period
For the first week of GSoC, I don’t really remember what I did everyday, but here are a list of things that have been done though anyway: Dreamweb intro functioningThe intro has proper TTS in most cases, we are fixing the way we do it, and adding support to Russian and Czech.For other parts, the … Read moreQuick Log
If dreamweb was like finding a needle in the haystack (with git grep -i text, to be fair)sci is going through the haystack again but three times the hay sizeI chose dreamweb as my first engine after griffon, not only because that was what I scheduled on my proposalbut because it was the only engine … Read more2 Days into coding period
After reading my blog, criezy generously suggested that I took time learning git commands and even discussed with him. Sev also repasted the git pro book, and suggested that the first 3 chapter would do. So basically, although I thought is was not a good idea to resolve something like this at the very first … Read moreFirst day of GSoC: Not what I have expected
I’ve open a brand new Github account just to learn how to. Not recommended for long term. I do recall sev saying something like as a dev you should use command line and I do agree with that. Well, I wanted to do everything with terminal commands, but was unsuccessful. I couldn’t find satisfying answers … Read moreHow to Open a Pull Request & Push and Commit Code to ScummVM
This is something really to celebrate. Yes I have just opened a hello-world-difficulty PR but did you know how long it took me???????? I feel I should write a tutorial for this. (And I did: Here) It feels so great to see a brand new PR with three beautiful commit messages.