<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Jon,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>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!)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>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!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>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!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Joe</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, December 22, 2013 6:54 PM, Jon Wallace <jonw@psubs.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Thought this might interest some of you. With little effort I can <br>incorporate some basic audible alarms into my environment monitoring <br>project to notify me of off-scale sensor conditions. At first I <br>considered just sounding a buzzer and flashing a light next to the <br>sensor that was off scale. For just a few dollars more I can include <br>mp3 playback of synthesized voice warnings
for a particular off-scale <br>operating condition, ie. low oxygen, high carbon dioxide. I edited <br>together some aircraft warning sounds along with synthesized voice from <br>an online text-to-speech convertor to create a small library of voice <br>warnings I call "Matilda". MP3 recordings attached. It requires a bit <br>more hardware but from a software perspective the program is only a few <br>lines longer than implementing a basic piezo buzzer alarm.<br><br>Pre-dive checklist will include testing alarms to ensure they are <br>working correctly and an override button will allow stopping the alarm <br>during operations so you don't have to listen "Matilda" all the way to <br>the surface. I've decided to use the "buzz,buzz,buzz,buzz" sound for <br>informational alarms and the "whoop,whoop" sound for emergency alarms. <br>Now if only I could find text-to-speech translator for Yosemite Sam or <br>Foghorn Leghorn to make it
really unique.<br><br>Jon<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>