im no PD expert, but maybe one avenue worth investigating is finding the appropriate software (hopefully something open-source) that does the word recognition and spell checking then getting that to send control data to PD via netsend / netreceive.
Perl seems to be the obvious candidate for its text munging capabilities, and theres some simple code on the pure-data.org site for a perl client that can talk to PD.
http://www.pure-data.org/Members/kogger/netperlpd/view
just an idea.
:)
martin
Bradon Webb wrote:
Hello,
This may be slightly OT. I was wondering about text cababilites PD has. I was wondering if PD could recognize words somehow, so that say I gave it three letters A, B, and T, it would result to me BAT, or TAB, but not BTA, ATB or ABT. As the latter are not words in the english language. Also maybe It could do something like a spell check where letters that are close to forming words, would be corrected and output. I am looking to have some kind of perfomance with the text. I like the structure and organizational design in PD so that is why I thought PD. Eventually I may want sound to react to specific words. I am not an experienced programer, and PD is all I really know at the moment. I think there is nothing in PD that will do this text function, but is there anyway for me to use it in conjuction with a spellcheck aplication or dictionary application. maybe I could write to a text file and have a spellcheck check the document and save document and read back into PD. The whole structure should be somewhat autonomous, meaning I don't want to have to manually pull up the files check them and save them. I am on either Win XP or Linux.
thanks for any help, bradon