August 1, 2001

Here is significantly better source distribution. Untar it into you home directory (or wherever) using 

tar -xvzf billysrc.tar.gz
Before building it you must first compile and install two other libraries, the Open Source Audio Library Project and QpThreads. The new Big Mouth Billy Bass control program can do a lot more, including:
  1. Play standard sound formats, including WAV, MP3, aiff, and au.
  2. Synchronize lip motion with sound if given a TIMIT file. TIMIT files are standard transcription format.
  3. Play a given sound file given on the command line.
This source includes three WAV files from the Simpson's television show, and the corresponding TIMIT transcriptions (.lab extension).

April 1, 2001

Here's a tarball, for x86 Linux, of the low level control code. You need to obtain and build the FFTW libraries first. Then uncompress and unzip the tarball, into a new directory. Then within that directory just type 'make' and hopefully all will compile and link. To run the program, run 'demo [filename]' where filename is the name of a WAV file or raw sample file. Even if it doesn't work for you--it's not an April Fool's joke! Promise! ;->