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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Voice support suggestionRe: Voice support suggestion
From: <chou.clement_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:36:02 -0800 On the topic of voice support... I am wondering, is there a plan to make Rockbox text-to-speech as screen readers? So we don't have to hear other voices mixed in with the menu spoken voices. I'm wondering about it mainly out of curiosity, and also because I like the way Via voice / eloquence pronounces file names on my computer while using JAWS. I would record clips using it, but it would take way too long. lol. Just a question I thought I would ask out of pure curiosity. Thanks for allthe voice support so far, and I agree with Rich and all his comments! Have a great day, or night, wherever you are. Clement. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" <richtone_at_vnet.net> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>; <linus_at_haxx.se> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:22 PM Subject: Re: Voice support suggestion > <linus_at_haxx.se> on Thursday, 3-22-07, 2:48 AM polled blind users: > > Would it be helpful if the menu title is spoken when you enter a menu >> which is not directly selected by a menu item? > > Yes. Excellent Linus, you are on the right track. Thank you for > initiating > this dialogue. That brings several related topics to mind as well. > > Some users have indicated they are already comfortable with the amount of > verbosity as is. The others may find that after using the additional > verbosity that you are suggesting for a while, that they will no longer > want > it. > > After surviving years and years of overly verbose tools, (outside of > Rockbox > you understand) it's very appealing to maintain the ability to make things > more cryptic when desired. Why not make verbosity level a user definable > menu item? It's there when you need or want it, and gone when it isn't. > > On the topic of what is playing: > Currently If I press Menu to reach the menu from the WPS, my RB says "Now > playing". It surely would be nice to be able to select "now playing" and > have the file name MP3 clip spoken. As far as I can tell at this point, > the > only way I can discover the track name of the currently playing item is to > stop playback and go to the files menu, that is if I have all the settings > set properly for that. Of course if adding that to "Now playing" is too > big > a pain, I'd be happy to have some other simple button sequence for that. > > On another important topic, there are times when I can't tell if the > machine > has turned off, if the battery has died or I've fallen into one of those > dreaded speechless holes. Seems like an audible prompt to indicate start > up > and shut down would help clarify that a lot. It could be a unique curtacy > tone or spoken prompt that would play at the beginning of start ups and > shut > downs. They would just be audio analogs to the visual screens which > sighted > users rely upon. Again, these prompts could be selectable and their > status > added to the user preferences. > > I certainly hope all of you developers who have done so much hard work on > Rockbox understand that the suggestions made here are in no way a > criticism > of the incredible fruits of your labors. Without talking Rockbox, there's > a > huge number of us who would have very very limited access to MP3 players, > if > at all. > > I'm also very appreciative of your patience with our technical ignorance > and > willingness to help point us in the right direction. > > I've enjoyed hundreds and hundreds of great hours of very enjoyable > navigation and portable MP3 listening over the last couple years because > of > Rockbox. Thank you. I look forward to figuring out how to best > reciprocate. > > Ever grateful, > > Richard > *** > Received on 2007-03-23 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |