J. Sebastian Schlegel

About a small game with sailing ships that I’ve been tinkering with for far too long, and which has finally gotten a name.

I finally worked up the courage to revive my website. I’ve saved a few old posts and moved them over.

Hugo today instead of WordPress. Feels a bit more hands-on. More direct. Like a typewriter. Quite lovely actually.

Elite Dangerous: I want to be able to talk to my onboard computer. Mary, Sphinx, and libGDX are here to help.

A small experiment with MaryTTS and CMU Sphinx4. The goal here wasn’t to transcribe sentences, but rather to recognize some defined commands.

While looking for a Text-To-Speech solution for Java, I came across MaryTTS. It’s been around for a few years, but is relatively lightweight and very easy to use.

In the second part of ‘Tracing Katia Sae’s Steps’, we calculate the duration of the great journey.

A list of routes through all warp gate-connected systems in the EVE Online game world ‘New Eden’.

For the first time, a pilot has visited all star systems in EVE Online. A Python script should find the shortest route through all systems. The approach is a partly randomized pathfinding executed thousands of times in good old brute-force fashion.