this is a writing engine intended to imitate the predictive text function on smartphones

The classes are structured as follows:

• a corpus has a tree with the frequencies of all n-grams up to a certain size present in a source, and information about which words precede and follow these

• a voice is a weighted combination of corpora

• a voicebox contains a list of voices, and has a user writing loop that allows for switching between them on the fly

Instructions:

SETTING UP THE FOLDER

• 1. Download the folder (using the green button in the top right of the repo) and save it on your desktop as pt-voicebox
• 2. Create a text file for each source text you want to use. Save them inside the 'texts' folder within voicebox (pt-voicebox/texts)

RUNNING THE PROGRAM

• 1. Open the Mac application called Terminal
• 2. Enter this into the Terminal window: cd Desktop/pt-voicebox (This means “change directory to voicebox”)
• 3. Enter this into the Terminal window: python voicebox.py (This means “use python to run the script called voicebox.py”)
• 4. Follow the onscreen instructions.