From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:05:40 +0100

Here's some food for thought...

How about embedding the speech of the song title/artist/whatever as an
ID3(v2) tag within the MP3 file itself - this way the speech can be
generated once and will automatically move with the file without a script
to control it :)

Ludicrously simple to do, no new standards, most code already written, etc.
I'm sure someone would enjoy the few minutes work it would take :)

As for putting the speech in the file in the first place
...the work is pretty much already done at id3.org :)

BC

At 13:51 01/09/04, you wrote:
>One other question comes to mind. Will the script have to be run every time
>music is downloaded to the box?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Aman Singer" <aman_at_asinger.net>
>To: "'Rockbox development'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:34 AM
>Subject: RE: my box rocks!, not second test of link to post
>
>
> > Hi, Vincent.
> > You asked
> >
> >
> > What I wasn't sure of. Is there any other user intervention other than
> > downloading the 2 files?
> >
> > Yes, when you finish downloading the two files, you need to run the
> > lamewin32.exe
> > After it finishes installing the Lame encoder, you need to copy the
> > vbs script to your Lame directory. You can then run the VBS script by
> > double-clicking or hitting enter on it. Make sure your jukebox is
>connected
> > to your system and enter the drive letter of the jukebox if the music is
> > already on the jukebox. Alternatively, if you haven't yet copied your
>music
> > to the jukebox, enter the drive letter and directory you have your music
>in.
> >
> > HTH.
> > Aman
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]
>On
> > Behalf Of vincent
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:27 PM
> > To: Rockbox development
> > Subject: Re: my box rocks!, not second test of link to post
> >
> > If you want your directory names spoken as words, rather than spelled
> > or given numbers, you need to know that rockbox doesn't have any TTS
> > capabilities. It wants to see a file called '_dirname.talk' in the
> > folder. That _dirname file contains the name of the folder in MP3
> > format. One of the rockbox programmers has released a script to create
> > these _dirname.talk files automatically see
> >
> > http://joerg.hohensohn.bei.t-online.de/archos/speech/mp3ClipGen.vbs
> >
> > to get that script and
> >
> > http://www.mp3-tech.org/software/encoders/lamewin32.exe
> >
> > to get the lame executable which it requires. Install lame, copy
> > lame.exe and the mp3clipgen.vbs script you get from the first link
> > above to the same directory, then run the mp3clipgen.vbs script. You
> > will be asked to enter the folder where all your music is stored.
> > Enter the path to your jukebox (make sure it's connected). That is, if
> > your jukebox is drive letter J:, enter 'j:\' and hit enter. The script
> > should, in a few minutes, give you a success message.
> >
> >
> > What I wasn't sure of. Is there any other user intervention other than
> > downloading the 2 files?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Wolven" <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
> > To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: my box rocks!, not second test of link to post
> >
> >
> > > Brian Wolven wrote:
> > >
> > > > <ch1rem$v13$1_at_sea.gmane.org>
> > >
> > > ...but he obviously wasn't paying attention when he did it. =)
> > >
> > > In any case, what I was trying to point out was the info orginally
> > > posted by Aman Singer regarding the additional speech options available
> > > with rockbox - speaking of folder names, etc. I'll just insert the
> > > relevant material here, and suggest that you also look at the following
> > > links:
> > >
> > > http://rockbox.haxx.se/twiki/bin/view/Main/BlindFAQ
> > >
> > > ... and here are Aman's notes on getting folder names spoken:
> > >
> > > If you want your directory names spoken as words, rather than spelled
> > > or given numbers, you need to know that rockbox doesn't have any TTS
> > > capabilities. It wants to see a file called '_dirname.talk' in the
> > > folder. That _dirname file contains the name of the folder in MP3
> > > format. One of the rockbox programmers has released a script to create
> > > these _dirname.talk files automatically see
> > >
> > > http://joerg.hohensohn.bei.t-online.de/archos/speech/mp3ClipGen.vbs
> > >
> > > to get that script and
> > >
> > > http://www.mp3-tech.org/software/encoders/lamewin32.exe
> > >
> > > to get the lame executable which it requires. Install lame, copy
> > > lame.exe and the mp3clipgen.vbs script you get from the first link
> > > above to the same directory, then run the mp3clipgen.vbs script. You
> > > will be asked to enter the folder where all your music is stored.
> > > Enter the path to your jukebox (make sure it's connected). That is, if
> > > your jukebox is drive letter J:, enter 'j:\' and hit enter. The script
> > > should, in a few minutes, give you a success message.
> > >
> > > Disconnect the jukebox and reboot it as usual. You'll need to set the
> > > voice directories option alluded to above to while hovering or on
> > > enter, depending on whether you want your directories spoken when you
> > > enter them with play or right arrow, or as you hover over them.
> > >
> > > To get names or numbers spelled or spoken for your files, you need
> > > only set the "voice files" option in the voice submenu of the general
> > > settings submenu off the main menu to either spell or numbers. Your
> > > files, as you go through them with the arrows, will either have their
> > > names spelled or numbers spoken for them.
> > >
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