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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Rockbox voice filesRe: Rockbox voice files
From: Grant Hardy <granthardy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:18:47 -0700 I agree. I've got some SAPI5 voices that would rock, but I'm no developer and haven't a clue how to generate my clips. :- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocker" <rocker_at_shaw.ca> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Rockbox voice files > Hi, > > Could this be compiled in Windows? What am I saying? I don't know how to > even compile...LOL...rocker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Teh" <jamie_at_jantrid.net> > To: "ScottLearned" <SLearned_at_cox.net> > Cc: "rockbox list" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:56 PM > Subject: Re: Rockbox voice files > > > Hi again, > > I just investigated this further. It seems that the -o option of genlang > is all that is needed. On a Unix system, run genlang over english.lang > like this: > cd rockbox/apps/lang > ../../tools/genlang -o -e=english.lang -t=h300 english.lang > > newenglish.lang > You also need to run it over the language file you wish to use if it is > not English: > ../../tools/genlang -o -e=english.lang -t=h300 deutsch.lang > > newdeutsch.lang > Obviously, the target and languages should be replaced according to your > needs. > If you can't use genlang, I have uploaded my english.lang here: > http://www.jantrid.net/misc_files/english.lang > > Jamie > > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:51:24AM +1000, James Teh wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> I'm cc'ing this to the rockbox users list, as others may find it useful. >> Hope you don't mind. >> >> I actually have little knowledge of the Rockbox code, but have dabbled >> at understanding bits of it. Nevertheless, I have done quite a bit of >> investigation on the recent "broken voice UI" issue. >> >> Like many others, I have noticed that current voice files broke in early >> april (2006-04-02 build, to be precise). This is due to major changes to >> the language files. To further compound the issue, the language source >> files (i.e. not the binary language files) have completely changed >> format as of 2006-04-03. The new format is known as langv2 and none of >> the current voice file building scripts have yet been updated for the >> new format. (This is the reason for the html-like tags described by >> Andrew Hart.) >> >> The tools/genlang script in the Rockbox source provides an option (-o) >> for >> output of the voice language strings in a format similar to that of >> langv1. This is the best hope for the voice building scripts like >> makevoices.vbs, though I think they may still need some changes in order >> to work. I will investigate this at some point in the near future if no >> one else beats me to it, though I don't have any SAPI voices apart from >> Microsoft Sam to work with. >> >> If you have no voice for now, you can roll back to 2006-04-01 or >> 2006-03-31 daily build and use the Viavoice voice file provided by >> someone on this list a few months ago. I'm not sure of the URL, so >> you'll have to search the mailing list archives. >> >> Jamie > > -- > James Teh > Email: jamie_at_jantrid.net > WWW: http://www.jantrid.net/jamie/ > MSN Messenger: jamie_at_jantrid.net > Jabber: jteh_at_jabber.org > Yahoo: jcs_teh > Received on 2006-04-10 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |