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Creating a Pause Method in Java

Published in February 2nd, 2008
Posted by Scott in Java, Robotics
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I use this often in my robotics code. The reason is simple, it takes the robots time to do things and I need to wait for a microcontroller to perform some action, like get a sensor reading, or move a certain distance, or change heading. It’s very simple, but I will add more robotics code [...]

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Text To Speech (TTS) with Ruby and PHP

Published in January 30th, 2008
Posted by Scott in Robotics, Ruby
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I was working with some scripts for having my PC talk. The first one is in Ruby:

require “win32/sapi5″
include Win32
v = SpVoice.new
v.Speak(”this is the easiest thing to do since I have started working with ruby..”)
Now this one in PHP:
<?php
$tts = new COM(”SAPI.SpVoice”);
$tts->speak(”this is a test”);
?>

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