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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: PDA to JukeboxRe: PDA to Jukebox
From: Ray Lambert <listlizard_at_interthingy.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:51:28 -0500 Glenn, I think you printed the wrong URL there; it looks like it should be: <http://www.linux-speakup.org> The one you gave redirects to some grassroots political web site. Anywho... Yes, I do use a Zaurus C860. Great little machine (but no USB host). I only wish it had a built-in 40GB HD so I could replace my Archos FMR with it and only carry one device with me. Of course, I'm sure I would miss Rockbox... :) After a brief look at the speakup web site, I think it's unlikely that this would work on a Zaurus. A quick search through a couple of Z software indices found nothing. First off, unless I misunderstood, it requires a hardware speech synthesizer of some sort which I doubt could be connected to a Zaurus. If it were possible to work with a software-only speech synthesizer, then this might be possible. The Z does have full sound support (in fact, I'm in the early stages of writing a guitar signal processing program so I can practice when I'm on travel without having to lug an amp around with me... :) I just did a quick search and I did find a software-based speech synthesis program based on Festival: <http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=377>. There's also this one that gives some hope: <http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=893> (note that it's proprietary, though). However, the bigger problem is that the Z doesn't run on X, but rather Qtopia, which is a PDA desktop based on Qt using a frame buffer. It might still be possible to get it to work on this platform but it would likely require a large effort. There is one glimmer of hope though. Some folks have put together an alternate ROM for the Z which does run X11 and they've managed to port many Linux desktop apps to it (<http://www.pdaxrom.org>). I haven't tried this ROM myself, but I understand that it's a bit slow (not surprisingly). If it is at all possible to get a screen reader working on the Z, this ROM would probably be your best hope. Nevertheless, I've posted a question on the forum to see if anyone knows anything. Here's a link to the thread, so you can monitor it, if you like: <http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11196> ~ray >Ray, >Do you use one of these PDA's? >If so, could you ask that list if it can run, or rather, if Speakup could be >made to run on it? >Speakup is a screen reader for Linux. >If so, that would be wonderful for many of us. >Speakup can be found at: >http://www.speakup.org >Glenn > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-03-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |