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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: [IDC]Dragon <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:22:41 +0100 (MET) > Can I ask what your resistance is to the phonetic idea? (That is a > serious question) Because this is pie-in-the-sky, versus for mp3 clips we have all the infrastructure. mp3 clips from the buffer will take only minimum extra resources, some slight changes to menu and screen code. A TTS engine is a whole lot different. > My push toward it is that within a couple of versions it could be > multi-lingual; it would at least _attempt_ to read directory and MP3 > names, > and the blind users (I guess) would happily rename all their files with > appropriate phonetic names. For this we can use talkbox, and you can generate the directory name clips offline on a PC, using a text-to-speach script, if you like. > From your post it seems the biggest hurdle would be playing samples < 1s Hu? No, you can have clips down to 1 frame, which is in the milliseconds. And latency is also no issue, either we have the clips in the mp3 buffer (while not playing), or we don't. Jörg -- GMX ProMail (250 MB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS, Virenschutz, 2,99 EUR/Monat...) jetzt 3 Monate GRATIS + 3x DER SPIEGEL +++ http://www.gmx.net/derspiegel +++ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2004-02-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |