Inchoate Ascendant™: April 12, 2013.

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April 12, 2013

Crawling Inefficiencies

I've spent part of this week working on art projects. I've also spent perhaps embarrassingly long sets of time messing around with voice synthesis software, mostly in the form of text to speech programs. The voice I would most like to use seems to be caught in a terrible tangle. You could spend an exorbitant amount to buy the software to use anywhere, or a mere $7-8 for an iPhone text reader app if you happen to have one of those. Not having other inexpensive apps is pretty aggravating. Still it's not the voice I would really like. This isn't really anything I need, so I guess I'm shelving it again, except I did get a free program that might let me work something out, if I can figure it out. The state of this stuff has progressed very little since I messed around with it years ago. Not only that but the barriers to entry are still there and still very fake with high minded sounding instructions that are actually just plain lacking because you have to pass the test of figuring it out yourself or just plain programming something else entirely yourself.

I did a little bit of shopping around for an editor to give a final look over of my first novel. It's all too expensive and I have no patience (or perhaps I have enough sense) to try and Kickstarter for it. I'll leave that for something worthy of the effort, planning, and scads of bonus materials that Kickstarter entails any more (or always did in some fashion). I'll have to give the novel the one last pass myself before unleashing it on the world myself. It's been long enough I hope any typos and the like stand out like sore thumbs. That is if I really find any worth mentioning. We were really thorough.

Music: Otome no Policy by Yoko Ishida.