[Avery Andrews 940118]
I suddenly hear (or don't hear) a csgnet silence, so I'm partly checking
if it didn't just stop arriving again. But also:
1) no real progress with the manual controlled speech synthesis, due
to no leads on free/cheap software of good enough quality. My
local phonetician is not reassuring about this `you work for weeks
trying to get something that sounds good, then play it to your
friends, and they say ``w.t.f. is that??'' '.
2) I have been working on a 2d `astro' type creature in turbo C++,
as an intro to OOP methods, and for exploring reorganization
and navigation. So far I have a triangular `fish'-body that
can rotate and propel itself forward and backward through
a medium with thoroughly fake hydrodynamics, including
a `current' that can be varied to provide for disturbances.
But there's also a rogue pointer somewhere, so who knows when
something distributable will emerge...
Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au