Giving confidence to code
Welcome to the third in the series on adding speech to a Java application. In the previous post, we wrote a small application to list out all the voices available in our Java FreeTTS speech synthesiser.
In this article, we will take a look at increasing the number of voices available to us by adding voices from MBROLA. Continue reading “Adding MBROLA speech to FreeTTS Java speech synthesiser”
In the last post we took a look at a small application to demonstrate making our program speak and the various voices and settings that can be used to alter the sound.
In this post, we are going to build a small proof of concept project to load the FreeTTS synthesiser and start to use it. Continue reading “JavaFX and adding basic speech”
I was working on a project the other day and it had a requirement for speech. Based on some pre-agreed text, the application needed to play back the text to the user. Now, these days this sort of thing is common place. Alexa and Siri are well known services based on this sort of technology.
So, what if you want to convert text to speech how can you do this.
There are many terms used within the software industry to describe roles that people perform. All of these roles contribute in some shape or form to produce and deliver software to a target audience.
Many of the terms used are arbitrarily assigned by organisations as they suit, and do not necessarily conform to any agreed to and understood definition. In fact, if you were to look these terms up in an attempt to define each you will find a varying array of explanations. Continue reading “Roles in Software Development”
I come across many articles that discuss what makes a good developer:
• What is a good developer?
• How to become a good developer?
• Things you must know to be a good developer? Continue reading “What is a Good Developer?”
When I first started out in programming, I made the same mistake I now see countless people make when starting. I wrote code for me and that worked, and that was good enough for me. As time passed and the code I produced expanded and became more ambitious so my bad habits became more ingrained. I think it is something we all do; we all go through. It is not until we encounter an issue, a reason to change, that we appreciate the error of our ways. If we are fortunate we get an opportunity to work with other more worldly wise programmers who can help us adopt good habits; if not then we need hard lessons to alter our behaviour.
Continue reading “Configure your application using a properties file”
Previously I had written a blog called “Wrap Java into an executable with Launch4J”. The title for the article I now realise was perhaps misleading in that it only covered how to download the tool and install. I understand that some readers may actually want an example of how to convert their Java code into an actual executable. This aims to address that short coming.
Continue reading “Wrap Java into an executable with Launch4J-Part 2”If your java desktop application needs to store data in a database between sessions then a good solution is to embed a database into your solution. What this gives you is an application which installs the database as part of the application, builds the database tables and populates it with any initial data. This approach avoids the need for the user to install a database separately from the application.
Let’s takes a look at how to you might go about this.
In the previous post we looked at displaying information in a hierarchy using JTree.
Now all this is fine but, usually when we use a JTree it is because we want to be able to select an item, one or more. For our example let us concern ourselves with selecting a single item and displaying the detail associated with that item. Continue reading “Using JTree to select information”
The other day I came across an example where a formula written in a Java program could be represented as a standard equation on the screen. I thought this was brilliant. I recall back in my Uni days using the formula editor in Microsoft Word to present formulas. Now I don’t have a use for this in Java yet but, you never know. However, in case anyone out there does have a requirement to produce a formula from within their Java program then maybe this will help.
The challenge is to produce an output that looks like this:
