Nishanth' tech rambles

The following link is thanks to mru in beagleboard irc channel. the link to the discussion is here. The interesting thing is unless you work at oss/alsa layer, there are too many higher sound server options... IMHO, flexibility vs scaring folks off... ;)

Gumstix guys have been a fun bunch known to create tiny little boards at low costs.. Overo seems to be their solution for OMAP3! check it out here . lots of the linux guys hacking are in the beagle community too.. you can find many(such as Steve Sakoman) in the beagle irc also if you are interested..

Setting basics up: I use x-chat2 with uberscripts and festival plugin . Tired of the default festival voice, Today's effort was to change the voices ;). I found this to be the best available resource. Here are the instructions in command format. You can just copy paste the following. sudo apt-get install festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festlex-oald libestools1.2 unzip sudo apt-get install festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16 cd ~/tmp mkdir hts_tmp cd hts_tmp/ wget -c http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2 wget -c http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2 wget -c http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_clb_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2 wget -c http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2 wget -c http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2 wget -c http...

Jack Kilby invented IC this very day 50 years back :).. And guess what? in his memory, Texas Instruments has started Kilby Labs . We have come some way in the last 50 years.. and beagleboard is one of the shining lights of what our technology really is :)

thanks to beagle board irc (#beagle on freenode), found this link useful: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0344e/index.html It is literally a goldmine for those working on ARM processors!