I'm trying to get access to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.speechsynthesis.speechsynthesizer?view=winrt-19041 so that I can use TTS, specifically TTS with SSML in a game that I am working on. However, I feel like I've been getting the run around when trying to find information on whether it's possible, and the easiest way a total smooth brain like me could do it.
Things I've tried so far:
Tried building and using LuaCOM. Think I was barking up the wrong tree here, not sure that you can access the API that way.
Building and using LuaInterface. It's like 8 years old, I'm not sure I was even using it correctly. I think it's more like a wrapper or something for spinning up it's own lua instance. Also, building it was an absolute nightmare.
Using Unmanaged Exports to write and build a dll that I could load in lua. Maybe? I don't know, I was never able to get DllExport or UE to ever work.
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I have a web application where user uploads the images of their locations. I want to write a program to detect the type of location and list of objects from the image. I write a program in C# using alturos YOLO to detect objects in the image. The result is fine for me but the problem is i want to detect the place type from the image. Like, if you upload some image that has snow then it should detect the "Snow" keyword. If you upload the "Lake" image then it should show keywords like "Lake, water, river etc". I am a web developer and never done any Machine Learning or image processing thing. But i am keen to learn this. Is there any way to do this or anyone can tell me the right path to do this.
I found this "https://www.clarifai.com/" but i want to write my own code because i have large number of images.
All in all, I'm pretty sure that there's no single correct answer to this. You could implement image recognition in a hundred different equally correct ways using different tools. So here's my opinionated perspective. Anyone and everyone is free to agree/disagree with what I'm saying.
I've worked a bit with Open CV (Python) in the past. There are a great number of libraries available based on it, so you can probably find a working base to build off of. I think that it should be capable of doing the task you specify, although I'm not quite sure how it would be done.
The other framework for machine learning and object recognition that I have seen is Apple's Create ML/ Core ML system (Swift or Objective-C). My experience with that one is as limited as cloning a git repo and poking around inside, but it looks pretty powerful.
I'm a junior PHP/JavaScript/HTML developer, recently hired by a company that makes photobooths. I had never worked in a Ubuntu system before this. This I find relevant because I think that for this reason I might be skipping an obvious step or something like that.
One of the projects I have to work on is adding a NFC device on the photobooths, so the user can just tap the area with their phone and get the pictures they just took. Sounds easy.
A previous employee bought an ACR122U-A9 device, that connects via USB, but they weren't able to make it work. I took the device and followed every single tutorial I have find out and I had no luck either.
What I have achieved after installing a great deal of things and blindly following tutorials is just this:
If I open a terminal, and type "pcsc_scan" it detects the device and it kind of "works", reading the cards if I tap them. I get some hexadecimal codes and some blue text that doesn't say anything to me. And while I do this I can't even type in the terminal so I cannot do anything at all to it.
What I actually want is to know how to make the computer speak to the NFC device, not listen to it. Well, I guess it has to listen to know when to send info.
I think that I'm missing something very obvious, because every tutorial I find just explains what kind of code you need to write to do X thing or how to make the device emulate a card or things like that... But I think I need something WAY more basic:
How do I even start to work and interacting with it?
Info that might be relevant:
I didn't specify how I got to the point that writing "pcsc_scan" makes something because A) I've done so many tutorials and different things that I don't remember what part of what I did accomplished this and B) I'd like to start from scratch in order to understand what am I doing.
I'm working on a Ubuntu 17.10 machine, but the final product will be working under Windows (different versions of it depending on the Photobooth)
Our photobooths work with a web-api in localhost. Everything is either PHP, JavaScript, CSS, or HTML. In the end I will need a way for the device to get the info it needs from one of these languages (if possible)
I'm still struggling with Ubuntu. Everything you try to install or interact with in this OS is done via commands that I don't completely understand and I repeat from random internet tutorials or forums like a parrot. Fixing this is not part of the question, I'll eventually learn this, but I think it might be useful to know that I might not even know some things that should be obvious or basic about it.
I am looking for some advice from somebody who has used Google maps and Codeigniter. I am new to maps and working on a project that is built with Codeigniter and uses Google Maps. I am wondering whether to incorporate it directly into the project or use a library for it.
I have found a library here - http://biostall.com/codeigniter-google-maps-v3-api-library and have started using it and have found it easy to use for incorporating maps. I am wondering however if anyone else has used it and if so does it have the full functionality of Google Maps.
I know that Google Maps has amazing features and I am a bit anxious to continue with the library and discover later in my project that it doesn't support the functionality I might need. I am going to keep researching it but if anyone has experience with it I would appreciate some advice.
Yes, I've used two different Google Maps libraries for CodeIgniter 2.
I ended up keeping the one you've linked for both projects. It was cleaner to use than the other, less helpers to load and lines to write in order to create a simple map. I don't know what else you're really looking for here. Also, with this library, I only needed to pass two variables into the View... where with the other, the View needed a bit more complex code. Really, there's only two variables that need to be passed into the view... the Map and the JavaScript for the map. If you're clever, you could also combine them into one.
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"I know that Google Maps has amazing features and I am a bit anxious to continue with the library and discover later in my project that it doesn't support the functionality I might need."
So what? If that's your only concern, then don't worry. Switching out something like this is pretty easy. Since it's invoked and configured in your Controller (or it should be), there's relatively little code to change.
(The developer was also very responsive to my support requests, which is saying a lot for a open source project.)
I'm interested in working with Lucene from a Cocoa application. I'm aware that there are many ways to do this, but my question is, "which way is best?" My investigations so far:
LuceneKit is an Objective-C port of Lucene, but is based on a version of Lucene that is ancient at this point, and in trying to use it, I've run into several major issues from the get go. (Improper subclass of NSDate; A basic query that works in Luke doesn't work with LuceneKit;) It appears to be a non-starter.
CLucene looked like it might be viable, but it fails a bunch of it's own tests on build, including an intermittent concurrency related problem where half the time I run the tests they deadlock. Not inspiring. This still may be the answer, but I'm very nervous considering my experience just building it and running its own tests.
Current Apache Lucene via JNI - Having simply never called a Java library from C, I'm unsure what's involved here. I certainly feel like the official Apache-curated incarnation of Lucene is likely to be the most mature and functional, but having not done the C <-> Java JNI thing before, I'm unclear how the effort involved would compare to working with CLucene.
Maybe there are other options. I'm not necessarily looking for a first-class Objective-C interface (although I wouldn't turn one down, either) just something functional and hopefully reasonably mature and reasonably performant. Anyone have any sage advice?
From my experience using JNI (although, not with Lucene), it's not too tricky to get something simple working, but you can wind up writing a lot of fairly monotonous code wiring everything up.
Another option you may want to consider is JCC, which is used by the PyLucene project to generate a boilerplate C++ wrapping around the JNI itnerface, which they then use to wrap a Python API around.
I have not been able to track down an answer on this. I'd like to be able to manipulate or create images to then compile into a video. I'm starting to think this is just not a good fit for GAE. I wanted to do this in Python but doesn't look like that is possible without C support. Even with Java I'm seeing conflicting information about what is possible.
Does anyone know for sure if there are any fully supported image libraries for Python or Java?
You're right - anything that involves heavy image manipulation isn't a good fit for App Engine - especially video encoding. Consider writing a service that does this on something such as EC2, and calling it from App Engine when needed.