Syllabic division of words

[Randall Reetz]

Somewhere in the apple, microsoft, and unix tech there is code that exposes the phonetic mapping to syllabic chunking within a word or phrase.  It is usually in os best interest to expose hooks into core services to encourage application writing attention.  My point is that this functionality is best placed deep down in the computing stack, not up at the application level where only a small user group can benefit.  If the rev user is required to hunt for external api's... well, forget it.  Not interested.

I am a realist in the extreme richard.  If I advocate a technology its because it is both important and possible.  Mostly I care about tools that can reach down to some salient and causal or formative base that maps structure across domains, access to the control of which will open huge new territories of understanding and automation.  The automation of meaning is to my mind the gateway to vast future exploration and exploitation of complexity.  If I could think of a more important avenue towards the most fecund of futures, I would be working towards that instead.

randall

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:25 PM
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Subject: Re: Syllabic division of words

Randall Reetz wrote:

 > Richard, the doc is obsolete, not the technology.  Follow
 > the link provided.  A little reading will go a long way...

I did click the link.  It took me only to the index of all documents for 
the current audio API:

<http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/MusicAudio/>

If you have a URL to a current implementation of this technology it 
would save some hunting.

If a current API for this is supported it would be an interesting read, 
but it's less important to me than the other technologies I'm 
researching so forgive me if I don't do the hunt myself.


 > Why are you hell bent on destroying this much needed tech
 > and me in the process?

Sorry if I ruffled feathers; not my intention.  On the contrary, I 
agreed it was a way cool technology and offered an example of having 
seen it in action confirming its rather mind-blowing coolness.

If you had meant to provide a URL to a supported technology I can 
certainly understand a simple mistake, but if it's not supported it's of 
little long-term value.

And even if it were, as you noted this stuff isn't simple:  Apple can 
provide an API for it, but what would a multi-platform tool like Rev do 
for Windows and Linux?  I agree that it would be attractive, but I also 
agree it would be expensive.


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
 > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:00 PM
 > To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
 > Subject: Re: Syllabic division of words
 >
 > Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
 >> Sorry, I have been spelling "phoneme" wrong.  Here is a link to the
 >> apple tech to which I refereed:
 >>
 >> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Mac/Sound/Sound-201.html
 >
 > ...which carries this warning:
 >
 >    Legacy Document
 >
 >    Important: The information in this document is obsolete
 >    and should not be used for new development.
 >
 > Too bad.  I saw a video from an old WWDC (probably the same one
 > in which they demoed the ill-fated HC3) in which the presenter
 > had a text window with a slider control, and as he moved the
 > slider the text would get more and more stripped down until it
 > eventually showed only a sentence or two containing the most
 > salient concepts.
 >
 > Nifty demo, but given the nuances of language and its continual
 > evolution (we live in a world where "bad" means "good" and "sick"
 > means "great") I can understand why it's been ditched.

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