Journey of Life: June 2016

June 23, 2016

text to speech and speech to text

text to speech:
- Mary Text to Speech (Open source): http://mary.dfki.de/index.html
- https://www.ivona.com/
- http://neospeech.com/ (Better voice than ivona)

speech to text:

- Kaldi open source: http://kaldi-asr.org/

- Comparing Open-Source Speech Recognition Toolkits - Suendermann: http://suendermann.com/su/pdf/oasis2014.pdf

- Microsoft Bing Voie Recognition https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/speechrecognition, and code example: https://github.com/keedio/bing-speech-to-text-example

- Google speech api

- AT&T Speech api, code: https://github.com/jsgoecke/attspeech (closing)

- Pocket Sphinx (CMU)

- HTK?

June 22, 2016

ubuntu 16.04 dnamsq only local working

in /etc/init.d/dnsmasq, comment out the following line:

DNSMASQ_OPTS="$DNSMASQ_OPTS --local-service"

June 14, 2016

golang serving dynamic and static files

http://www.alexedwards.net/blog/serving-static-sites-with-go

package main

import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
)

func index_handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "<html><body>Hi world.<img src=\"/img/kitten.jpg\"></body></html>")
}

func main() {
fmt.Println("Running...")
http.Handle("/img/", http.StripPrefix("/img/",http.FileServer(http.Dir("public/img"))))
http.Handle("/js/", http.StripPrefix("/js/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("public/js" ))))
http.Handle("/css/", http.StripPrefix("/css/",http.FileServer(http.Dir("public/css"))))
http.HandleFunc("/", index_handler)
http.ListenAndServe(":9000", nil)
}

Use tshark to display captured conversations

tshark -r c:\temp\4g2.pcap -q -N "CdnN" "-zconv,udp,!udp.port==53" -zconv,tcp

June 6, 2016

use fswebcam to script webcam picture capturing

create a config file, use:
nano ~/.fswebcam.conf

The contents of my config file are listed below...

device /dev/video0
input 0
loop 15
skip 20
background
resolution 320x240
set brightness=60%
set contrast=13%
top-banner
font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf
title "EvilEye cam-O-tron"
timestamp "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S (%Z)"
jpeg 95
save /home/user/pictures/viewcam.jpg
palette MJPEG
Check the fswebcam MAN page for the full range of commands and options. I'm just using those that are relevant to my particular installation.

June 2, 2016

dead simple web server in C

https://gist.github.com/tiebingzhang/d1fa66af5916bc8ce97eefdd02854d53

June 1, 2016

Reset lost password of Windows 2008 R2

The process is simple:

1) Boot Ubuntu 12.04
2) Open the Disk Utility and mount the partition that contains the Windows OS on it (make note of the partition name). Let us call this “PartName” for now.
3) Open the Terminal application and cd to /media/PartName (where PartName is the name of the Windows partition).
4) cd to Windows/System32 (you are in Ubuntu, so case matters, check the case)
5) cp Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak
6) cp cmd.exe Utilman.exe
7) Power off, remove your Ubuntu disk and boot Windows.
8) At the login prompt, press <windows-key>+U
(this will bring up a cmd.exe window running with administrator level privileges)
9) net user <username> <new password> (eg. net user Administrator Pwned123!)

You have just the password for the Administrator account. Type ‘exit’ to exit the command prompt, and since you are at the login screen, feel free to press CTRL+ALT+DEL and log in.

Don’t forget to open a command prompt window, navigate to c:\windows\system32, and copy Utilman.exe.bak Utilman.exe. Otherwise, you have left the server open to anyone who walks up and presses <windows-key>+U. Although it still won’t stop them from doing what I did.

Source: https://joeweaverwindgap.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/how-to-reset-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controllerdomain-administrator-account-password/