[tmp] Drat, The Links Did Break - was RE: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items

  • From: "Jim Hunt" <jhunt76@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:47:16 -0400

Hey Bobby (and all),

Sorry, those first two links I gave did break in half, I just checked ...
OK, try this:  Go to https://www.wuala.com/talkingmp3players/Firmware,
choose the link for your player, and download the file called .rockbox with
shortcuts.zip.

Jim

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Of Jim Hunt
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:36 PM
To: tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tmp] Re: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items

Hey Bobby,

Actually, Laz put up firmware improvements for both the Clip Plus and the
Clip Zip.  (I have a Clip Zip.)  Here are the links Laz posted; hopefully
they don't get broken in half when I copy them to this message.

Clip Plus:
https://www.wuala.com/talkingmp3players/Firmware/Clip%20Plus/.rockbox%20with
%20shortcuts.zip

Clip Zip:
https://www.wuala.com/talkingmp3players/Firmware/Clip%20Zip/.rockbox%20with%
20shortcuts.zip

Here again is the link to download the patch I created, which does work for
me on my Clip Zip, and it should work on Clip Plus players as well.
https://www.firedrive.com/file/770C72B99654B003

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Harris, Robert
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 6:15 PM
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Subject: [tmp] Re: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items

I think that was for the Plus?

Bobby and Prince


-----Original Message-----
From: tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrea Sherry
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:41 PM
To: tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tmp] Re: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items

Thanks heapsly for that one.
Cheers
Andrea
On 23/04/2014 6:30 AM, Jim Hunt wrote:
> Hi Fanus,
>
> Are you using Mac or Windows?  Did you apply Laz's firmware update 
> that enables the use of shortcuts?  I don't remember the links Laz 
> posted for the firmware update specific to your player, but that 
> firmware update should be applied first.  Then, there are a couple 
> ways you can go about applying my
> patch:
> Method 1: Unzip the patch and move the entire .rockbox folder to the 
> root of your player, thereby merging that .rockbox folder with your 
> player's .rockbox folder.  Say yes to merging folders and choose 
> Copy/Replace each time.
> Method 2: Go into the .rockbox folder you've extracted and copy the 
> entire contents of it (there's one subdirectory and a shortcuts.txt
> file) as-they-are into your player's .rockbox folder.  Choose 
> Copy/Replace when asked about overwriting shortcuts.txt.
>
> Hope this helps.  I'm learning new things as I go also.  That's what's 
> great about this list, we help each other.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Fanus
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:15 AM
> To: tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tmp] Re: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items
>
> Hello Jim
> Thanks for the patch but I do not know whether I am stupid or missing 
> something but I am not sure exactly where the two files should lie. I 
> suspect it must be in the existing .rockbox folder but if I copy them 
> there, I do not get a shortcut item on the clip zip menu.
> Where do I go wrong?
> Regards
> Fanus
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Hunt" <jhunt76@xxxxxxx>
> To: <tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <laz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:06 AM
> Subject: [tmp] How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> OK, as promised, here is how I took the great work Laz had done and 
> tweaked it to get Rockbox to speak shortcut menu items.
>
>
>
> First, I did promise you a patch.  If you don't wish to read through 
> the explanation of how I did this (as I get a bit technical), go here 
> and download the zip file:
>
> https://www.firedrive.com/file/770C72B99654B003
>
> Unzip the file to your computer, and copy the .rockbox folder inside, 
> as-is, to the root of your player.  Important Note: the .rockbox 
> folder in the zip file I'm sharing with you does not contain a 
> complete replacement of the Rockbox firmware; it is just a .rockbox 
> folder with files and a subdirectory that would be added/merged to 
> your player's current .rockbox folder.  It's probably a good idea to 
> make a backup of your player's.rockbox folder before merging the 
> contents of my patch to the root of your player.
> Next time you
> boot up your player and go to shortcuts, not only will you be able to 
> hear the time and date, but you'll also notice several other nice 
> little surprises.
>
>
>
> Laz, feel free to include the contents of the zip file in your 
> firmware packages if you'd like.
>
>
>
> OK, here's what I did.the technical explanation:
>
>
>
> First, I took a look at the files in the zip file Laz had created.  In 
> it, in the .rockbox folder, there's a file called shortcuts.txt.
> It was this
> file I tweaked, and I also created a subdirectory in my player's 
> .rockbox directory called shortcuttalk.  (That's "shortcut talk" all 
> run together.
> More on this subdirectory and how it is used a bit later.)
>
>
>
> After doing some research of my own on the Rockbox website, I found an 
> interesting querk in Rockbox: in order to have shortcut menu items 
> spoken, the shortcuts.txt file not only needs to include the names 
> of.talk files, but the names of those .talk files should be preceded 
> by their relative path.  This is where the shortcuttalk subdirectory I 
> created comes in.  This subdirectory contains the .talk files the 
> shortcut menu items will use.  So, here is what the new shortcuts.txt 
> file will look like:
>
>
>
> [shortcut]
>
> type: time
>
> data: talk
>
> name: time
>
> talkclip: /.rockbox/shortcuttalk/time.talk
>
>
>
> [shortcut]
>
> type: time
>
> data: sleep 30
>
> name: sleep30
>
> talkclip: /.rockbox/shortcuttalk/sleep30.talk
>
>
>
> [shortcut]
>
> type: time
>
> data: sleep 60
>
> name: sleep60
>
> talkclip: /.rockbox/shortcuttalk/sleep60.talk
>
>
>
> [shortcut]
>
> type: time
>
> data: sleep 120
>
> name: sleep120
>
> talkclip: /.rockbox/shortcuttalk/sleep120.talk
>
>
>
> If you read all that, you might have figured out what the little 
> surprises are.  OK I'll tell you, you can set the sleep timer from the 
> shortcuts menu as well, and those items also speak.
>
>
>
> OK, the shortcuts.txt file is tweaked.  Next, I created the .talk 
> files the shortcuts menu will use.  For this, I used several things:
>
> 1)      The Microsoft Text-to-Speech Server Platform with
> the Zera Pro
> voice;
>
> 2)      The free Balabolka program that converts Zera's
> prompts to wave
> files; Balabolka can be downloaded from 
> http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm;
>
> 3)      A copy of the Rockbox Speex encoder executable that
> comes packaged
> with the Rockbox Utility; the encoder executable file is called 
> rbspeexenc.exe.  I use this file via the command line to convert the 
> wave files created by Balabolka to .talk files.
>
> Next, I moved the .talk files I created to the shortcuttalk 
> subdirectory in the .rockbox folder.
>
>
>
> And that, my friends, is how I got shortcut menu items to speak.
>
>
>
> Here's the link again for the patch.
>
> https://www.firedrive.com/file/770C72B99654B003
>
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
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