From shuzt@yahoo.com Mon Sep 18 22:10:49 2000 From: shuzt@yahoo.com (Aaron Berg) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:10:49 -0500 Subject: [meta-sig] Starting a Sound sig. Message-ID: <39C684D9.5274EF17@yahoo.com> Hello everyone. My name is Aaron Berg. I work with speech recognition/synthesis at Minnesota State University, Mankato. For the last year I have struggled to find good sound utilities and sound handling code for python. I myself may not have the knowledge to create these needed modules. I would like to start a SIG that deals exclusivly with sound issues in python. I try to read as many posts to the python newsgroup as possible. I see people from time to time asking how to play sound in python, easy for some platforms but impossible for others. I don't really know how much of an interest there is in this subject. My personal interests are playing and recording sound under a linux platform. Although I have tried many approaches to doing this I have yet to find code that is easy to use and reliable. So with that I will ask. Do you have an interest in working with or learning more about Sound and python? If so reply back. I would love to get a SIG going. Thank you for you time, Aaron C. Berg From gward@mems-exchange.org Mon Sep 18 22:57:35 2000 From: gward@mems-exchange.org (Greg Ward) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:57:35 -0400 Subject: [meta-sig] Starting a Sound sig. In-Reply-To: <39C684D9.5274EF17@yahoo.com>; from shuzt@yahoo.com on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:10:49PM -0500 References: <39C684D9.5274EF17@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20000918175734.A11137@ludwig.cnri.reston.va.us> On 18 September 2000, Aaron Berg said: > For the last year I have struggled to find good sound utilities and > sound handling code for python. I myself may not have the knowledge to > create these needed modules. I would like to start a SIG that deals > exclusivly with sound issues in python. Sounds like a good idea to me. I haven't done any sound programming in Python (or any other language, for that matter), but the existing support for sound programming in the standard library seems to be a bit, ummm, scattered. For one recent example, it has been fairly well established on python-dev that the linuxaudiodev extension isn't really up to scratch. Also there doesn't seem to be any unified sound API. These are all good things for a SIG to tackle. *If* enough people are interested and able and willing to contribute code, I'd say a sound SIG is a good idea. ('fraid you can't count me under "able" to contribute code: I know nothing about sound programming, and I'm pretty well committed with other projects.) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange / CNRI voice: +1-703-262-5376 Reston, Virginia, USA fax: +1-703-262-5367 From shuzt@yahoo.com Mon Sep 18 22:10:49 2000 From: shuzt@yahoo.com (Aaron Berg) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:10:49 -0500 Subject: [meta-sig] Starting a Sound sig. Message-ID: <39C684D9.5274EF17@yahoo.com> Hello everyone. My name is Aaron Berg. I work with speech recognition/synthesis at Minnesota State University, Mankato. For the last year I have struggled to find good sound utilities and sound handling code for python. I myself may not have the knowledge to create these needed modules. I would like to start a SIG that deals exclusivly with sound issues in python. I try to read as many posts to the python newsgroup as possible. I see people from time to time asking how to play sound in python, easy for some platforms but impossible for others. I don't really know how much of an interest there is in this subject. My personal interests are playing and recording sound under a linux platform. Although I have tried many approaches to doing this I have yet to find code that is easy to use and reliable. So with that I will ask. Do you have an interest in working with or learning more about Sound and python? If so reply back. I would love to get a SIG going. Thank you for you time, Aaron C. Berg From gward@mems-exchange.org Mon Sep 18 22:57:35 2000 From: gward@mems-exchange.org (Greg Ward) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:57:35 -0400 Subject: [meta-sig] Starting a Sound sig. In-Reply-To: <39C684D9.5274EF17@yahoo.com>; from shuzt@yahoo.com on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:10:49PM -0500 References: <39C684D9.5274EF17@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20000918175734.A11137@ludwig.cnri.reston.va.us> On 18 September 2000, Aaron Berg said: > For the last year I have struggled to find good sound utilities and > sound handling code for python. I myself may not have the knowledge to > create these needed modules. I would like to start a SIG that deals > exclusivly with sound issues in python. Sounds like a good idea to me. I haven't done any sound programming in Python (or any other language, for that matter), but the existing support for sound programming in the standard library seems to be a bit, ummm, scattered. For one recent example, it has been fairly well established on python-dev that the linuxaudiodev extension isn't really up to scratch. Also there doesn't seem to be any unified sound API. These are all good things for a SIG to tackle. *If* enough people are interested and able and willing to contribute code, I'd say a sound SIG is a good idea. ('fraid you can't count me under "able" to contribute code: I know nothing about sound programming, and I'm pretty well committed with other projects.) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange / CNRI voice: +1-703-262-5376 Reston, Virginia, USA fax: +1-703-262-5367