"Geração sobre a fala" / "My Generation about Talking"
“Geração sobre a fala” (“My Generation about Talking,” Nick Montfort) Tradução para o português, Cicero Inacio da Silva.
“My Generation about Talking,” a text generator which I first presented at the Software Studies Workshop on May 21, 2008, is now available in Portuguese translation, thanks to Cicero Inacio da Silva. It was made for use in a presentation, but the program is set up to allow a user to play the entire presentation or to access any of the fifteen individual voices, each of which affirms repeatedly in some way.
The program is in Python and will run from the command line in OS X and on many Linux systems. It will run on Windows after Python for Windows has been installed.
For i
nstance, to run the English version of this program on OS X:
- Download yes_voices.py to the desktop; if you download it to another location, move the file to the desktop.
- Start the Terminal application and open a terminal window. An easy way to do this: Click on the Spotlight magnifying glass in the upper left, type “terminal”, and select the Terminal application. A window will open.
- In the terminal window, type “cd Desktop” and press return to change directories to the desktop.
- Type “python yes_voices.py” and press return.
Tags: e-literature | poetry | programming | Python
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3 Responses to “"Geração sobre a fala" / "My Generation about Talking"”.
At the risk of looking foolish, how do I get this text generator to run? What do you mean when you say it “will run from the command line in OS X” (i.e. my OS)? I tried dragging the file, yes_voices.py, into a Terminal window and pressed return but all I got was: Permission denied. Then I copied the actual text into the Terminal Window, pressed return and it generated some text very quickly but I don’t seem to be able to interact with it, i.e. “access any of the fifteen individual voices”.
Christine, your comment doesn’t you look foolish – I should have given more specific directions on how to run the program. I just added some to the original post.
You can actually drag yes_voices.py into a terminal window to run it, if the permissions on the file are set correctly. Downloading the file (via Firefox, anyway) changes the permissions, though.
Pasting the text into newly-opened terminal window won’t work, because the text is a Python program rather than a shell script. And, it’s set up to be read from a file rather than pasted in, so even if you type “python” to start the python interpreter, it won’t work.
Yes, I did it. Yes. Woohoo! Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh yeah…! Yes indeed. Yep. Sure. Excellent. Nice job. Yes. That’s it! Yep, this is it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yep.
Thanks Nick!