Sing-Song Speech

Before I lose my train of thought, for text-to-speech, the mannerisms for speaking might be best serviced with a music generation system.  My reasoning behind this would be it is not necessarily music but it has a certain meter, pitch variation and so on.  If it were to come down to an AI coming up with something to say, mood can best be expressed by a variation in tone in much the way as something is sing-song.  However, a certain clamp would be implied so that it isn't over the top, but at the same time breathe a little bit of life into the character.

I had something else but honestly couldn't tell you where I was going with the thought.

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Missed a blog

Already I missed an appointed posting. Need to keep up with it.

As far as last night goes, I've been bouncing between WoW, Naruto X-Box, keeping up with emails, and daydreaming. For WoW, I've been working on my Hodir reputation -- which is the same 4 tedious quests with a mild inuendo to the titles. For the Naruto game, I'm amused with the story mode that they have -- tho the best part of the game is the one where you jump through hoops in the forest competing for best time. So fun. :D

Lastly, e-mails and daydreaming. I keep thinking to myself if I spend the money and time to build a cluster/cloud of VMs with a rackmount that I can somehow get myself back into programming and make a Neural Network / XML distributed DB. Speculations on what it should have as a primary task I haven't an inkling of what to do with it. Perhaps have a way to store character information for an unnamed Wayfarer MMO (or even just a paid content site), or something with Shadowrun, or miscellaneous -- maybe a CMS/Bulletin Board/Fuck-all-if-I-know.

We'll see

Hooray for Idle Time

While I was waiting, I managed to get bugzilla, tikiwiki, and subversion installed on the new VM I made.  So close to getting a more secure, less hardware-dependant server up and running.  Once I'm fine with everything going up, I can switch the DMZ and point it to the VM instead.

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Tags: Servers, Web, Subversion, Virtual Machines

Circuitry and Artficial Life

So yesterday I had a few thoughts on rolling my own circuit board for a cellphone.  There were quite a few useful sites on finding manufacturers for LCD screens and the like, but I'm not really sure on how to get things like an nVidia chip (just a chip with unsoldered pinouts), or an AMD subproc.  While I was digging around, I thought it would be neat to have a GSOM (Graphical Self-Organising Map), first to place the chips using heat-distribution rules (probably some complicated math/physics formula), and then treat electrons like ants.

The ants would have their own rules to follow:

• Shortest path from 1 pin to another


• Minimum distance from another ant's trail


• Obey things like resonance, interference


• Making "fuel stops" at capacitors, LEDs, so on


• Possibly re-routing 3-dimensionally up to 8 layers

I've always wanted to have a program that writes programs, what about a program that makes hardware -- but intelligently.  Another factor is that there is debugging tools out there to run mockups of the circuitboard before going to fab, I just wonder if there was a way to interactively debug then let the GSOM program adjust and learn from it's mistakes.

Food for thought at least.

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Tags: SOM, AI, Programming, Hardware, Random Thoughts