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I felt the need for a quick, easy and reliable way to generate .talk
clips from the Linux console. I’m totally blind, and rbutil was not an
option as QT apps aren’t accessible under Linux.

I decided to develop a script in python
to do just this. It works reasonably well, though it is basic, but it
does what I want.

This patch creates the file trunk/tools/talkclips.py
python talkclips.py will give usage info, though all you do is supply
one argument, the directory you wish to create talk clips under.

Features:
Creates clips for files and directories (recursively)
Logs to a file so usage can be examined.
Validation checks for the command line as well as error checking.

Maybe it might be handy to add functionality so a file can be passed,
but I couldn’t see why someone would want this…? A progress
measurement may be useful, but I think this just over complicates the
whole thing.

Requirements should just be python, espeak, and rbspeexenc should be in
the same dir unless you modify the path in my script. You obviously need
some kind of shell to work with os.system(), eg. bash.

Anyway let me know your thoughts (diff attached)

I couldn't find a way to make this a feature request, so sorry… But I am requesting a noisey rewind/fwd. Like a cd player or some desktop music players or even some player's of have this… So as you hold either rewind/fast fwd, you can here the song being skipped through and fast forwarded or rewound… This is very useful to find a certain part of a file eg a podcast… So is anyone interested in working on this? I can't program very much myself so that is why I am requesting this…

Thanks

Ok, this patch just allows a short press of the rec button on h300 and h100 to go to the radio.
I didn't remove any keymaps so I think this should be ok to commit. Even though most developers don't like keymap patches.

Todo:
- Check white space including new lines… - Add more keymaps for more players
- Testing!

I think that is it.
With white space I was in a bit of a rush and couldn't check it…

Also, it applies on the latest rev, but not tested.
I tested on something like 600 revs ago or something…

Here it is…I don't have a lot of time for rockbox at the minute, otherwise I would do some more testing.
I have been using this patch for over 2 months and it has worked great for me.

Version and buffer size shouldn't come before date.
So I have reorded the screen.
Before:
-battery level
-disk free space
-disk size
-buffer size
-version
-date
-time

Now:
-battery level
-time
-date
-free disk space
-disk size
-version
-buffer size

I would imagine most people would want to hear the time before version for example. So I think this is better because I usually want to hear battery level, time, date (sometimes) and free disk space.
I will sometimes check my version but not much. Most people probably remember that type of thing?
And the buffer size doesn't worry me too much…

And everyone knows how big their disk is so that should be at the bottom. But I thought it was a good idea to keep the disk stuff together and free disk space can be useful…

This patch just adds the speaking of the battery level at 5% as well. So when the battery hits 5% it will now say "batterly level 5%".
Not tested but should work.

This patch just voices the version (spells it). Also say the battery time in minutes/hours. Don't say minute or hour just say the number for example:
15 22. Is 15 hours 22 minutes.

Also speak the disk size because we can…

Problems:
-Two options aren't spoken on h300.
-Version probably shouldn't be first in the list. How do I change that? Maybe version last and battery level first.
I don't want to voice something different to what's on the screen too much.
Here is the patch anyway. Simular to  FS#6138  by Stéphane Doyon.

But that one is out of date due to JdGordon's changes to the info screen…

This patch puts an option under voice called “beep notifications”

When it is set to yes (by default) it will play the beep for the keyboard edit line.

Will also be useful for other patches like my beep when charger is inserted/removed.

If the setting is off nothing will beep except the other beeps controled by other settings…

When scroling through menus with long names and tapping down or up quickly in a row the player chrashes.

Doesn’t happen all the time but I have found it happens a bit in the display settings. It seems to be a voice problem.
I have only tested with voice menus enabled.

If you hold down or up it is fine and if you don’t tap quickly it is fine also.

Maybe we should only voice the current menu option if there hasn’t been a key press for 0.3 s? Action_none is far too long…

When playing videos two people have found that mpeg player chrashes.
I am working on a patch so hopefully it might work.
Please let me know if you get these problems with voice.
When does it occur?
With voice menus on?
Talk clips on?
spelling?
numbering?
Thanks.

This patch (A work in progress) will soon speak the battery level automatically at:
50%, 20% and 5%.

Also it says “charger inserted” and “Charger removed”. Still needs further work for battery status notifications.
See the next few comments for the patches.

This patch simply moves the code to speak the time from main_menu.c to a function in talk.c.
I did this because I am writing another patch that needs to voice the time.
I think this will also be easier to voice more info under the info screen like the disk size.

The function is in talk.c and is called talk_date_time it requires one argument of type bool. True to speak the string "Current time" and false to just speak the time.
It checks for talk menus enabled as well.
Finally I of course added the proto type to talk.h.
Here it is…

This patch by SofRaZorbacK translates
 FS#7682  to french.
This patch requires
 FS#7682  Since I don't speak french I haven't been able to test.
Thanks.

This patch voices some extra splash screens. Like under the info screen if you scan the disk it says "Scanning disk".

Could someone see if they can fix a few things?
-When hold is on and you press a key nothing is spoken
-When restarting playback nothing is voiced

Also can someone find out if the error messages will talk?
Please comment.
Thanks.

This patch adds speech to battery bench.
Requires  FS#7704 . I know this is very simple but it might come in useful. And I hink it is a good start.

Voice the alarm under the system menu.
It wasn’t even very hard!
Anyway if your player has a wake up rtc and you go to wake up alarm it will start talking. So you can now set the alarm with the voice and hear if it has worked or not. You should also here errors if they occur.
Since I wrote this patch for a friend I haven’t got an ipod to test on. So I have just been testing on the sim.
Anyway let me know how it goes.
Here it is…

This patch by Stephane Doyon voices stuff like duration I think but not sure. If someone can work out exactly what it does please post a comment.
Also I think it is used by his other patches that I will upload once I have updated them.

This patch makes the 24 hour time spoken as:
"14 hundred hours"
and it also will say "14 07"
If it is set to 12 hour format it will say
"7 o'clock a m" And it will say "7 07 a m" as well.

I know everyone has there own opinion on how the time should be voiced. So I don't expect this to get commited. Anyway it is here anyway.
I haven't tested it but it compiles and it should work. Let me know if it doesn't.

This patch just puts a shutdown item in the main menu for all players.

I know that
 FS#6733  Does the same sort of thing however I want to just have a shutdown option in the main menu not a power menu with the sleep timer and a reboot option.

Anyway here it is.

Voice the time in 12 hour format under the info screen. It even says a m and pm. In english.lang I had to write a m so it wouldn't say am. Anyway here it is.

Under the info screen the disk size is voiced. I am blind and I wanted to start with something simple so I thought this would be a good start. Hopefully someone will find this useful. Anyway here it is. Use p1 to add it.