by Ernie » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:59 am
Hi Katja, Sorry for the slow response on this.
1) I called it Beta because I was concerned that my server wouldn't be able to keep up with demand. I burried the setting to turn it on because I didn't know when I would get my TTS server up and running and didn't want to advertise it if it wasn't working. (I submitted the app to Apple before my TTS server was ready.)
2) I will document TTS in the next update and will provide better instructions on what is going on. Thanks for your input on confusing terminology. By default, only sides without an existing sound will download a new sound. You can turn an option on to redownload (re-process) all sounds. This is useful if you've made changes, but it's admittedly very inefficient. If you've changed some text, you can delete the sound from the card edit screen and re-run TTS without downloading all sounds; but this is not convenient to manually delete sounds. In the next version, setting to "None" will not remove sounds. I don't have plans to remove sounds right now, but maybe it's something I should offer.
3) To refresh a single card, you need to manually delete the existing sounds and re-run TTS. I'll need to think about more elegant solutions.
4) I don't plan on asking user about TTS right when they download. They need to go to TTS screen. Again, I probably need to figure out how to update for changes more efficiently.
5) "side 1" vs "text 1": ok. I don't have any plans to allow 2 sound clips on a side.
I was hoping to get German from Google translate, but they don't support a mass download of TTS sounds. I will proabbly use Microsoft sounds for the next update, which don't seem very good quality, but I don't have a better option at the moment.
Hi Katja, Sorry for the slow response on this.
1) I called it Beta because I was concerned that my server wouldn't be able to keep up with demand. I burried the setting to turn it on because I didn't know when I would get my TTS server up and running and didn't want to advertise it if it wasn't working. (I submitted the app to Apple before my TTS server was ready.)
2) I will document TTS in the next update and will provide better instructions on what is going on. Thanks for your input on confusing terminology. By default, only sides without an existing sound will download a new sound. You can turn an option on to redownload (re-process) all sounds. This is useful if you've made changes, but it's admittedly very inefficient. If you've changed some text, you can delete the sound from the card edit screen and re-run TTS without downloading all sounds; but this is not convenient to manually delete sounds. In the next version, setting to "None" will not remove sounds. I don't have plans to remove sounds right now, but maybe it's something I should offer.
3) To refresh a single card, you need to manually delete the existing sounds and re-run TTS. I'll need to think about more elegant solutions.
4) I don't plan on asking user about TTS right when they download. They need to go to TTS screen. Again, I probably need to figure out how to update for changes more efficiently.
5) "side 1" vs "text 1": ok. I don't have any plans to allow 2 sound clips on a side.
I was hoping to get German from Google translate, but they don't support a mass download of TTS sounds. I will proabbly use Microsoft sounds for the next update, which don't seem very good quality, but I don't have a better option at the moment.
