[tmp] Re: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items
- From: Laz <lazmesa6@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:04:26 -0400
I don't think you'll receive any conflicts, Gera. The shortcut just
gives the command to speak the time whether it's in English or
Spanish. As far as the talk files, you could create your own in
Spanish or hear the ones in English. Since they're just talk files,
I.E. recordings, they'll just play in whatever language they were
created.
Regards,
Laz
On 4/22/14, Jim Hunt <jhunt76@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hola Gerardo,
>
>
>
> Hmm, yeah you might get conflicts. Sorry bro, don't know how to solve that
> one ... bummer I know.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> From: tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tmp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gerardo Corripio
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:12 AM
> To: tmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tmp] Re: How I Got Rockbox to Speak Shortcut Menu Items
>
>
>
> So OK my Rockbox is in Spanish with the Antonio Voice, whereas the
> shortcuts
> speak in the Microsoft Server English voice. Might I expect conflicts if I
> were to try out this patch? I don't want to mess things up! Yes I know I
> always have my backup rockbox, but I ask just in case; these shortcuts
> sound
> interesting!
>
> El 22/04/2014 04:48 a.m., Andrea Sherry escribió:
>
> Thanks much for that little surprise package.
> One query?
> If I create those .talk files using my voice of choice (which happens to be
> Acapella Amy) can I replace your files?
> Cheers from Australia
> Andrea
>
> On 22/04/2014 7:06 PM, Jim Hunt wrote:
>
> 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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