[PSUBS-MAILIST] Matilda - you'll never dive alone

[Marc de Piolenc]

"Surface? I'm sorry, Dave - I just can't do that."

Marc

On 12/23/2013 8:09 AM, Joe Perkel wrote:
> Jon,
>
> Oh no, now you've done it, now that's way too cool I have to have it!!
> Maybe even HAL's voice, (Na, too creepy!)
>
> I'm not going to delve into that now but, somewhere down the road rest
> assured I'm looking into that further. Along the same lines are video
> overlays for depth and heading, all stuff to play with later, but
> definitely on my to do list!
>
> I envision incorporating various high tech toys overlying the basic bare
> bones critical systems, all for the pure fun of it. The pilot in me will
> determine a minimum equipment list and red tag yellow tag system, but
> you've just got to have fun with this too!
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Sunday, December 22, 2013 6:54 PM, Jon Wallace <jonw at psubs.org> wrote:
>
> Thought this might interest some of you.  With little effort I can
> incorporate some basic audible alarms into my environment monitoring
> project to notify me of off-scale sensor conditions.  At first I
> considered just sounding a buzzer and flashing a light next to the
> sensor that was off scale.  For just a few dollars more I can include
> mp3 playback of synthesized voice warnings for a particular off-scale
> operating condition, ie. low oxygen, high carbon dioxide. I edited
> together some aircraft warning sounds along with synthesized voice from
> an online text-to-speech convertor to create a small library of voice
> warnings I call "Matilda".  MP3 recordings attached.  It requires a bit
> more hardware but from a software perspective the program is only a few
> lines longer than implementing a basic piezo buzzer alarm.
>
> Pre-dive checklist will include testing alarms to ensure they are
> working correctly and an override button will allow stopping the alarm
> during operations so you don't have to listen "Matilda" all the way to
> the surface.  I've decided to use the "buzz,buzz,buzz,buzz" sound for
> informational alarms and the "whoop,whoop" sound for emergency alarms.
> Now if only I could find text-to-speech translator for Yosemite Sam or
> Foghorn Leghorn to make it really unique.
>
> Jon
>
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