Iris Speaker

First of all, I want to thanks my son Roman
for his invaluable help in optimizing the program code.

Guide to the Iris Speaker application.

Iris Speaker is an application related to S-art Iris that will help you to do work comfortably and quickly.
However, Iris Speaker is an additional (auxiliary) application. It is not included in the “One Iris” package and is provided “as is”.

The app requires you to download the Instruction created by the Iris app. This Instruction is a separate Instruction.TXT ( e.g. “mpnimbler_zvr1mpdjv.txt” ) file that you received in an email along with the Instruction.PDF ( e.g. “mpnimbler_zvr1mpdjv.pdf” ).
Please note that Iris Speaker does not recognize Instruction.PDF, this app requires Instruction.TXT!!!

How to get started with Iris Speaker apps.

-Iris Viewer-

  • If you have switched to the Iris Speaker application from the page https://s-art.pro/iris.html, the Instruction.TXT will be loaded automatically.
  • If you want to load a new Instruction.TXT, you need to click the [Load Instruction from file] button.
  1. After loading, the work image will appear in the -Iris Viewer- window.
  2. ( ) – Save the current Instruction to the browser’s memory by clicking.
    ( ) – Download the Instructions saved in the browser memory by clicking.

    ATTENTION! Due to the peculiarities of browsers, in the Iris Speaker application you can work with only one Instruction at a time! Saving a new Instruction will overwrite the previous Instruction.TXT in the browser cache.

    Tips. If you want to do several works at the same time, you can open several browsers, e.g. Edge, Opera, Google Chrome.
  3. The -Iris Viewer- section is designed to preview the work. Iris tries to generate a preview image that looks as close as possible to the real physical work, however, it’s just Computer Graphics.
    Remember that the quality and color of the real finished work will depend on the characteristics of the threads you have used: color, thickness, luster. Therefore, the more accurately you enter color and thickness into the Iris Application Palette, the more similar to the real work the preview generated by -Iris Viewer- will be.
  4. The [Process] button allows you to view the winding process. You can adjust the drawing speed with the DrawSpeed slider.
  5. After previewing, you can download the Instruction from -Iris Viewer- to -Iris Speaker- by clicking [To Speaker] button.

-Speaker Settings-

First of all, you ned to configure and select a voice. Please go to the -Speaker Settings- section (below -Iris Speaker-).
Voice playback Instructions are based on an experimental feature of browsers, so voices and sound quality differ depending on the browser and OS you are using.

Example of the default settings for French
  1. Select your preferred language region (1).
  2. Select the appropriate available voice (2). Voice selection availability varies by browser, OS, and region.
    Tips. Some browsers do not allow you to make a wide selection of voices. In my opinion, the widest choice of voices in Edge, the highest quality voices in Google Chrome.
  3. Next, adjust the dictation speed and voice tone – do not neglect these settings, otherwise the voice may sound too robotic.
  4. For convenience, you can enter the name of the “colors” and “directions” (octaves) in your own language.
  5. You can listen to an example of the sound, taking into account your settings, by clicking the [Test] button.
  6. [Reset] button is resets the language settings to default.
  7. Don’t forget to click [Save] to save your settings to browser memory.

Don’t worry, all settings are saved in the browser cache and will be restored even after reloading the page!!!

  1. You can also select background music using the media player built into the page.
    Music tracks are divided into subcategories:
  • first select a Category, for example “Techno” or “Zen”;
  • then select Track.

-Iris Speaker-

  1. [Play] button – turns on dictation
  2. Button [Step] – allows you to go to one next Step of the Instruction.
  3. [ ] – turn on/off direction prefix dictation.
  4. [ ] – turn on/off dictation sound. (For example, if it is more comfortable for you to look at the screen, but you want to listen to the music of the built-in player.)
  5. Fast rewind – long press on the top or bottom of the column with numbers (Instruction).
    The longer you press the button, the faster the rewind or forward will be.
    Pressing once will move the focus one position in the selected direction.

Before starting work, you should choose the playback speed. For starters, it may be most comfortable to ask someone to press the [Step] button based on your winding speed. Once you’re comfortable, set the sliders:
Draw Speed ​​- pauses between dictation of the next pair of pins.
Color Change Speed ​​- additional pause for color change.

ATTENTION!!!
Dictation is somewhat specific. It will take you some time to figure out why and how it is, but it’s worth it.

When the winding process is in progress, you will need to make “broaches” (more details at https://blog.s-art.pro/s-art-iris-concept/)

Therefore, the Iris Speaker first dictates the Pin to which the thread needs to be drawn through the working field to Pin 285 (on the Figure), and then the pin to which you need make the “broach” to Pin 291 (on the Figure).

Experience shows that this is the most rational approach, so fewer mistakes are made and the work moves much faster.
At the same time, in the visual part (“ribbon”), the display takes place in the classical style: 36-57, 93-285, 291-120, 127-260, …- we stretch the thread through the working field from Pin 93 to Pin 285, then from Pin 291 to Pin 120, etc.

The Figure shows how to do the “broach”:
(1) Red: 36-57, 93-285, 291-120, 127-260, … – thus displayed in the “ribbon”
(2) Red: 57~93, 285~291, 120~127, 260~… – thus dictated

(1) and (2) – is a two types of notation of the same “chain”