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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Updated Voice Files: Another QueryRe: Updated Voice Files: Another Query
From: Brian Wolven <bcwolven_at_jhu.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:40:57 -0400 KANE BROLIN wrote: > Hi to all. > > I continue to make progress with Rockbox, but can't seem to get the iPod > to voice or to spell either file names or database entries. (I've tried > both.) I decided to load the "Paul" U.S. English voice--(I think this > is one of the voices issued on July 29) because it is not super-fast, > yet is quite clear and easy to understand. The voice identified as REED > on Andre's 07/29 list of seven voices is too fast at this point for my > comfort zone. I loaded this voice onto the Rockbox build of Aug. 5, and > now can go into menu layers and can modify settings with ease. I also > can modify how the voice works and which types of entries should be > spoken. In this way I have made sure that files' and databases' speech > is on. > > Another thing I have done, with my PC, is I have moved some of my iPod's > multimedia files into new directories that Windows Explorer can identify > so that not all are hidden in the iTunes file structure. I did this in > accordance with Anna's advice of last week. These directories are just > off the root directory of the iPod. > > Yet whenever I click on FILE or on DATABASE with Rockbox, I can play > individual entries, but none of them is spelled or voiced, and there is > no obvious structure to how they are arranged. Much as with the Apple > firmware. Do I simply have an inferior voice? If so, what other > relatively slow voice (300-400 wpm) can I use that has enough > pre-recorded entries to do what I want? The voicing of file and folder names is implemented differently than the voicing of the menus. Everybody has the same Rockbox menu, but not everybody has the same music collection. =) If you go to the blind user's page on the rockbox website, you'll find the tools and instructions needed to have your file and folder names voiced. Received on 2007-08-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |