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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: roadmap to blind Rockboxing (need an audio amateur/speaker)Re: roadmap to blind Rockboxing (need an audio amateur/speaker)
From: Brian Wolven <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:35:17 -0500 Rocker wrote: > I would personally prefer a human voice but if this saves memory? I don't think it will make much difference in the memory use, but it would allow automated generation of all the necessary voice clips, and make regeneration much easier when things inevitably change. I'd gotten a vbscript running that traversed the music file structure and spoke the folder names using MS Agent characters (uses the L&H TTS engine); it also generated the corresponding talkbox-format mp3 filenames for each clip. I never found a good program to automate the capture and storage of the spoken texts as mp3's, however (or WAV's that could then be fed to an encoder) - something with a CLI interface so I could call it from the script and pass it the relevant parameters. I DL'ed a few candidates that I haven't had time to test yet, so perhaps I'll still find something. I'd be happy to pass it on to anyone who wanted to develop it further. I'd also be glad to do some more work on it if someone knows of a suitable free (as in beer, but not necessarily open source) CLI-driven audio capture program. It would be trivial to have the script read the rockbox language files, as well. If anyone wants a script that reads your local weather conditions, as scraped from the weather.com website, that one is already good to go. You might not appreciate the animated Agent characters all that much, though. =) I was also working on a script to scrape traffic data from a state gov't. website for display on my desktop. I sincerely hope that nobody needs an audio-only version of that script. =P > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net> > To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: roadmap to blind Rockboxing (need an audio > amateur/speaker) > > > If someone can get it to work with MP3, I can use the AT&T natural > voices to make MP3 files of all of the menu options, and they can be > reduced to whatever bit rate is needed. > I have a program called: > Text Aloud, and it will convert text files of any size to an MP3 file. _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-02-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |