moin Roman, moin all,
On 2007-06-02 11:53:21, Roman Haefeli reduzierer@yahoo.de appears to have written:
but i couldn't find a help file. also when i create it, i get the message:
ratts: Realtime Analog Text-To-Speech externals v0.04 by Bryan Jurish ratts: Based on text-to-speech code by Nick Ing-Simmons and Jon Iles ratts: and PD external code by Orm Finnendahl and Travis Newhouse
but the object doesn't get any inlets nor outlets. maybe you can tell us a bit more about this external?
Since Georg has already plugged my site (thanks, Georg!) , I will refrain from doing so at this juncture.
[ratts] is just a dummy object which causes the whole library to be loaded. <rant>I used to be (actually, I still am) of the opinion that every external *library* should be dynamically loadable (which they are), and that it should be possible for any given abstraction to specify the libraries it requires by placing library-named objects (e.g. [zexy], [ratts], etc.) onto its canvas. Unfortunately, in my case, this practice has lead to much wailing and gnashing of teeth in particular with respect to pd-0.40.x and flext-based externals. Don't ask me why.</rant>
If you grab the "official" ratts distribution, you should have a help-file ratts-help.pd for [ratts] which gives you an overview of the various objects and abstractions in the library. If you just want pd to talk, check out the "ratts~" abstraction: text in, speech signal out.
marmosets, Bryan