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Speech Synthesis & Linux on the Surface
January Meeting: Speech Synthesis & Linux on the Surface
Date: January 5, 2017 at 7 p.m.
Location: Dymon Storage Boardroom, 110 Didsbury Road
Note - Room Change We will be meeting at Dymon Storage in Kanata, at 7:00pm
This month we will be having a talk on speech synthesis and running ubuntu on the Microsoft Surfacepossible an additional topic if someone volunteers.
Pre-meeting:
There will be a one hour pre-meeting item from 18:00 to 19:00 for people who are new to Linux, have general questions, or wish to help out with people who are just getting started.
After Meeting Social:
After the meeting, there will be a social event at one of the nearby pubs or restaurants. A short discussion and vote as to location will be taken then.
GPG Keysigning:
After the main talk there will be the opportunity for a GPG key signing. This is a monthly offering, just look for Scott after the talk and we can go from there. Bring some kind of photo ID and some keyslips if you expect people to sign your key.If you need some method of creating pages of keyslips, there is an online slip generator available.
Speech Synthesis with Festival Lite
Speaker: Scott Murphy
What is a speech synthesizer, some history, what would I use one for, and have they improved since “War Games?”
About the Speaker
Scott has been haunting server rooms and using/administrating Unix and Unix like systems for more than 30 years now. His background includes IT infrastructure, system administration, deployments and migrations, security and management. He is currently working as a consultant for the federal government.
Linux on a MS Surface
Speaker: Ian Gorman
Interested in playing with a Surface? Perhaps you do not need to run Windows after all. Ian will go over using Ubuntu on a MS Surface device.
About the Speaker
Ian has a lot of experience at applying experience outside of its original box.
He has solved problems in Economics, Math, Computer Science, logic based controllers, bicycles, and human relations, generally mixing in information from at least one other discipline or computer language to make it work, or work better. His experience with computers includes Linux, Mac, and several server OSes from IBM, Sun, and others. He has worked with drivers, parsers, API design, business rules, Java garbage collectors, and some less exotic code that just needed to work.