FreeLists / blindipod / [blindipod] Re: Where to find english.lang files

["Geetha Shamanna" <geetha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bret,

Why does one need to create a voice? When I installed Rockbox, I meerly copied 
the english.lang file into the Rockbox's Voices folder. 

Geetha
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brett 
  To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:02 PM
  Subject: [blindipod] Re: Where to find english.lang files


  Hi Jim,

  Basically you need to have a voice on your machine, preferably a SAPI5 voice. 
  2. you need the english.lang file. 
  3. You also need the makevoices.zip file, which contains the necessary files 
to create the voice from the english.lang file.

  To create a voice:
  1. Unzip the makevoices.zip file in to a folder that you can find.
  2. Copy the english.lang file in to the same folder where you extracted the 
makevoices.zip files. 
  3. Go in to the folder where you have all the makevoices files and highlight 
the makevoices.vbs file. Either right click it, or press the applications key 
and choose the "run from command prompt" option, from the context menu. This 
will load the script and start creating the voice file. 
  4. Once the process is complete, the command window will be closed and you 
will find a englishXXX.voice file in the same folder. XXX represents the name 
of the speech engine used to create the file. To use

  To use the file in rockbox, you need to strip the synth name out of the 
englishXXX.voice file so that it is called english.voice. You then copy this in 
to the rockbox\langs folder in your Ipod and reboot it. Your then good to go.

  By default the makevoices script will use Microsoft Mary from memory. To see 
what voices you have installed on your computer, press enter on the 
listvoices.vbs file. This will list each voice you have on your machine. You 
will then have to click the okay button to get it to move on to the next voice. 
Once you find the voice you want, you will need to copy down it's name exactly. 
Mine is"ScanSoft Karen_Full_22kHz". There are already a few in the makevoices 
script, so depending on what voices you have installed and which one you want 
to use,you may just be able to uncomment it out in the Makevoices.vbs script, 
and comment out the Microsoft one of course. The different voices that are 
available start on line 60 of the makevoices.vbs script, so you will have to 
open it in notepad to edit it. You place an apostrophe at the beginning of a 
line to comment it out, (ignore it) and remove the apostrophe from the start of 
the line to uncomment it.

  If you need the Makevoices file, let me know and I can send it.

  There is a page somewhere where you can download it from and has more clearer 
instructions than mine, but I can't seem to find it now. Just wish the rockbox 
site made it easier to find things, Smile. Hopefully someone knows where this 
web page is and can inform us.

  Hope this helps,
  Brett.

     

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jim Noseworthy 
    To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:30 PM
    Subject: [blindipod] Re: Where to find english.lang files


    Brett:

    I wonder if you could walk me through the creation of a voice file?

    I am not clear about the genlang issue.

    Thanks much.

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Brett 
      To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:01 AM
      Subject: [blindipod] Where to find english.lang files


      Hi all,

      After a re-format, I have found a couple of things I have forgotten to 
backup, one is the url to grab the latest English.lang file. Can anyone please 
remind me where to find the English.lang file for rockbox? I am not looking for 
the voice file, because I prefer to make my own Australian voice file.

      thanks for any assistance,
      Brett.