Re: New Open Hardware company
john wrote: [snip] ...look at new areas such as hackable wearable computing. Thus I am interested in seeing things get smaller and cheaper and more hackable and not getting more shiny! +1 Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Universal charger
For info, future 'universal charger' based on micro usb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7894763.stm Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: espeak, mbrola, utf8, navit : problem with french, accentuated letters
Xavier Cremaschi wrote: I added in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf DefaultLanguage fr AddModule mbrola sd_generic mbrola.conf DefaultModule mbrola and I created a mbrola.conf in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules Your mbrola.conf works fine, variables expanded correctly (speech-dispatcher 0.6.7 / hackable:1). Perhaps unexpected characters? For comparision, my files are there: http://soft.oralux.net/speech-dispatcher/sd-mbrola.tgz There is though a huge latency for talking a small text using mbrola + the fr5 database, around 3 seconds :-/ fr5 is around 5MB, copied on /tmp. Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: espeak, mbrola, utf8, navit : problem with french accentuated, letters
Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to use espeak+mbrola and navit to obtain a french-speaking GPS. Great! Indeed mbrola-linux-strongarm2-static works on the FR, for listers interesting in: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/bin/pocketlinux/mbr301h.zip The issue with French accent is the same than the one with the German character: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-December/038801.html I am currently using an old OM distro and hackable:1 and can't help further sorry for installing the locales on OM 2008.12. Breetings, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: espeak, mbrola, utf8, navit : problem with french, accentuated, letters (Xavier Cremaschi)
Xavier Cremaschi wrote: But I cannot pipe the output from mbrola through aplay. The pipe seems to lack of some headers : $espeak -v mb-fr1 -f napoleon.txt | mbrola -e /usr/share/mbrola/fr1 - test.wav yes, the header is removed, just supply the rate and format according to the mbrola voice, e.g. for fr1: aplay -r16000 -fS16 Greetings, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Navit speech dispatcher and ß
Michael Tansella wrote: does anybody know how to configure speech dispatcher. I use it the following way: spd-say -l de '%s' The only problem I have is that it cannot say the german letter ? it always pronounces it EsZett instead of s In Navit that's a big problem because the german word for street is Stra?e Hello, This is related to missing locales and so espeak can't work as expected. The issue can also be reproduced in calling directly espeak, e.g.: espeak -v de $(cat strasse-utf8.txt) The issue can be fixed if e.g. the /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE is added. Here for the test, I just copied my LC_CTYPE file from my desktop to my OM2008.8 rootfs, but the clean way might be to install the correct package. Greetings, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: community Digest, Vol 106, Issue 55
Josh Thompson wrote: Has anyone tried to find an armband for holding your Freerunner while exercising? The UMC-3 case logic armband matches quite well the Freerunner. The case is very elastic and so the headset can be plugged too. The lycra cover can be pulled back for permanently viewing the screen. The fr does not seem to become too warm in this plastic bag (test using OM2008.8 + GPS). Best regards, Gilles Case Logic: Universal MP3 Sport Case, Large : http://www.caselogic.com/universal_mp3_sport_case_large/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=120544 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: armband
Sorry for my previous mail, the subeject was not correct. Gilles Casse wrote: Josh Thompson wrote: Has anyone tried to find an armband for holding your Freerunner while exercising? The UMC-3 case logic armband matches quite well the Freerunner. The case is very elastic and so the headset can be plugged too. The lycra cover can be pulled back for permanently viewing the screen. The fr does not seem to become too warm in this plastic bag (test using OM2008.8 + GPS). Best regards, Gilles Case Logic: Universal MP3 Sport Case, Large : http://www.caselogic.com/universal_mp3_sport_case_large/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=120544 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Gutenflash
Yorick Moko wrote: btw: it doesn't create a *.desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ Righ :-) ! Added in: http://soft.oralux.net/gutenflash/gutenflash_snapshot-31-r1_armv4t.ipk Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Gutenflash
Hello, For info, a new ipk for Gutenflash (Rapid text reader) is available: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gutenflash Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)
Hello, It time is very critical, it seems better to let the phone continuously on. Otherwise is this scenario acceptable (automatic call after 3 minutes): the phone is off, the user still holds the power on button while the kernel is starting (say during 5 seconds or more), when the OS is operationnal, an automatic message is sent (with info on the user, possibly gps coordinates, etc...). Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on theFreerunner?
Le mer 13/08/08 07:51, Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Please issue it when it's READY and not on 2008.9.9 at 09:09:09 just for the fun of it. It depends on expectations, all respectable; some people are also interested in providing feedback for alpha releases. And it is good : I feared at a moment that the OM community could just be exclusively a community of consumers. So why not a next _alpha_ release on 2008.09.10 at 11:12:13 :-) Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Navit?
Le mar 05/08/08 08:09, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Dale Maggee wrote: OK, so I've tried building the maps myself, but I just keep getting 'bad request' when I use wget. This script from the om wiki splits the OSM area in small chunks and downloads them: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Navit#Script_to_download_OSM_maps Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Howto compile more kernel modules with MokoMakefile?
Al Johnson wrote: That's frustrating. I had imagined the gadget functions could coexist so we could provide both network and storage. Even if the gadget ether is built as module, it does not give necessarily the possibility to load another gadget. AIUI, only one gadget device can be installed at any time. Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Project Proposal: Dead man's switch
Diego Fernández Durán wrote: What do you think about a little app that works as dead man's switch[2] (DMS since now) in the FR? It can have the following features: - Trigger an alarm if you don't touch the screen before the countdown ends. Countdown can restart on touch. - Alarm can trigger different actions: * Call a number (112, 911, mum :) ) * Ring/Vibrate * Execute a command - Use a voice synthesizer (festival) to talk and give GPS coordinates (or location associated with coords [note]). Just a detail regarding your project, I am (re)checking text-to-speech on the neo, and a working multi-language configuration today is speech-dispatcher+espeak+alsa . I will upload the ipk packages if necessary soon (the packages are available in OE but not in the OM repository). Anyway, your dead man's switch will probably be convulsively scrutinized by the Assassin/Morgue couple ;-) Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Hot Pocket
Christoph Czernohous wrote: Actually mine is a 1973 not a FR. I set the power-saving to dim first then lock and I do not experience random wake-ups. However, since this happens with the phone in a pocket, I an imagine the screen getting touched every now and then. I also experienced this when the neo1973 was placed in a plastic bag (testing navit+speech+gps on motorbike). Now, my neo hangs on a belt in a Covertec case (around 12cmx5cm). The case does not suit exactly the neo dimensions and was 'customized' a little bit. I do not exactly remember the reference of the case, it belongs to this family of products: http://www.covertecstore.com/en/t-pda/rp-sx234-01/luxury-leather-case-for-ipaq-200-214-black.html Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: text mode web browser in 2007.2 ?
arne anka wrote: http://www.ginguppin.de/node/19 built links the other day. Hello, Wouldn't it be better for such common softwares to refer to the Angstrom repository? There is a note (which is perhaps obsolete today) at the end of this page: http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Repositories Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Visually Impaired?
Hello, A guide regarding accessible phones from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), list of specific phones or specific softwares (screen readers) for mass market phones: http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_mobphonesfactsheet.hcsp Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Visually Impaired?
John Whitmore wrote: I thought with the move towards keypad free phones and touch sensitive screens the blind were going to left out. Sorry, the link was just for illustrating some features available in the proprietary world. I appreciate the alternate, multimodal solutions you are envisioning (speech recognition, gestures, predefined keys on touch screen,...). Yes, a user interface _exclusively_ based on vision will exclude visually impaired people. This seems quite obvious, in fact not so much, it depends on our own awareness of accessibility barriers :-/ Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Assassin visiting the morgue...
Hello, Some recent projects names are a little bit 'haloweenistisc': assassin, morgue. Using them all along the year, on a dark device, argh... If this vein is pursued, please note that Alzheimer, Ebola, JackTheRipper are already reserved at sourceforge. What a chance :-) Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: speech - text on FR?
On Lun 16 juin 2008 6:00, Brandon Kruse a écrit : They also have a sphinx mobile-type of library, which seems to be very lightweight, and might be worth looking into. This benchmark (August 2007) compares PocketSphinx, Sphinx 2, 3 (on AMD Athlon 1670 MHz, 512MB of RAM). http://raphaelnunes.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/benchmark-of-sphinx2-sphinx3-pocketsphinx/ Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: interface for people with very poor eyesight?
Hello, You could possibly get feedback from the gnome accessibility mailing list, they already expressed interest for accessible smartphones: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/ I am interested by the neo as a device which could be potentially used eyes-free. Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GSoC project status: Speech Recognition facility in open moko
saurabh gupta wrote: Although I had a look at sphinx but at this moment I am not very sure that how much will i reuse it since with their very little documentation, the source code is not so comprehensible. However, I am trying to get a hand on it and use its libraries wherever possible. They also propose an IRC channel and forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=766785 http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=1904 Best regards, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))
Hello, Having an official packages repository is excellent. It is not enough though: openness to external contributions, possible reactivity are welcomed too, otherwise the repository would tend to a sanctuary. Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update
thomasg wrote: We all? At least not me. There are a bunch of wired headsets, headphones, I never used one of it. I also haven't ever seen somebody walking around with a wired headset in the last 3 years. Imho that's one of the most useless accesoires that comes with mobiles. If I want to listen to music, I'll take my good headphones, if I want to do a call, I use my bluetooth headset. I can't see a most of us here. Most of us won't need a headset at all, some will, and some of them don't want it wired. So get it yourself if you want to pay for it. I don't. Why do you need a brand? Just get a headset with a 2.5mm plug, it should work. Hello, I exclusively use the neo1973 with a headset for voice synthesis feedback. When I lost the original headset, I bought three other ones elsewhere : none of them was compliant with the Neo. Thankfully, I retrieved the lost original headset... Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Any compliant headset? (Re: was FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update)
thomasg wrote: What you wrote, Gilles, is a problem. I can't imagine, that FIC produced headsets that would fit for the neo only (why should they?), so I strongly assume that the headset is a standard device. Maybe you should describe what exactly didn't work, so we can try to figure out what the problem is. I can only guess: it could be a problem with the alsa settings, or maybe the impedance of the headsets was just different. Hi Thomas, all, Publish please urls where a compliant headset (2.5mm, 65 ohms, stereo, mic?) can be bought online. If there is no compliant headset, the issue will be at least identified, hopefully first step before resolution :-) . I tried 3 earphones: the first one was unusable, due to low impedance as pointed out by Joerg's answer: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-March/013791.html I did not find a 2.5mm, 65 ohms stereo earphone, and fall back to check two 3.5mm, 65 ohms Sennheiser earphones plus a 3.5/2.5mm adapter. The audio volume is correct, but now only one ear has audio. Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Data over normal GSM call
Hans L wrote: This thread gave me an idea which I haven't seen discussed before, though it's probably not useful for the situation the original poster had in mind. Although the transfer of audio data over cell phone audio is very lossy, there is at least one standard, proven way of transferring data by phone: DTMF(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF). This idea seems to me very attractive! This tiny URI could enrich the audio stream (from phone, FM,...) like a paper can be enriched with QR code, or a video with asterpix: http://www.asterpix.com Great! Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Accelerometer brainstorming
On Lun 31 mars 2008 10:59, Kalle Happonen a écrit : Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Do you think it's possible to use traits of a person's walk for identification? Never heard about something like this. Interesting idea, if it turns out implementable. I remember seeing some research results about this a few years back. Using a phone with accelerometers they managed to identify different persons from their walk with about a 90% accuracy IIRC. So it seems to be completely feasible, but I doubt that it's trivial. also this research paper: Footstep identification from pressure signals using hidden markov models http://www.ee.oulu.fi/mvg/files/pdf/pdf_459.pdf Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
GTA01 battery life
Hello, Does the recent image improve the neo1973 battery life? In particular, when the phone is stopped, is the gsm chip still working? Sorry for these questions, I use a image from January plus other apps installed and hesitate to switch :-/ Thanks, Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Application idea: Bicycle computer
Le Jeu 6 mars 2008 15:27, Schmidt András a écrit : As the Neo's screen is pressure based (not capacitive) it could be possible to be used through a thin plastic layer. There are PDA bags which cover the touch screen and it still remains functional. You will have to check if the heat dissipation is acceptable on a FreeRunner. Currently a Neo 1973 placed in a plastic bag becomes _hot_ . Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Audio wired Headset
Hi all, I am a little bit embarrassed: my audio headset is lost, another one bought recently is not compatible (a 4 ring model for a Nokia, the resulting sound is too low, almost unusable). Is it possible to buy a new audio wired headset from OpenMoko.inc? Otherwise, where can we get one please (OpenMoko distributor?). The wiki mentions several models. Analog wired Headset There's a four-ring 2.5mm stereo jack which provides connectivity to old-fashioned wired headsets. The headsets used by Motorola smartphones (A780,A1200, ...) and the V-360 have a compatible configuration. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_hardware#Audio There is a A1200 model in ebay, but it seems to come with a very different plug :-/ Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Emacspeak on the Neo!
Hello, Emacspeak is the audio desktop, the talking emacs developed by TV Raman: http://emacspeak.sf.net It is beginning to work on OpenMoko / Neo1973 :-) The aim is to be able to edit or read long texts eyes free with just an external keyboard, an earphone and the Neo. Please note that the current integration has room for improvements, requires emacs-x11 ( 50MB) and eSpeak (mokotts): http://oralux.net/mokospeak/ Best regards, Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue
Hi, Today, as already mentioned, Navit can use embedded maps from OpenStreetMap or proprietary maps. Since France is not yet very detailled in OSM, I am using an european map bought online, more than 2GB of flash are needed. Nevertheless, even with these data, it would be interesting to dynamically populate the map using an external database (for example cinema currently playing a film, etc...). I met also recently such issues in looking naively for possible haptic applications, for example simply activating the vibrator when a key is pressed. It seems there is a wall in this realm (search keyphrase: haptic patent portfolio). Is such a simple feature legal or not in a free software? what are the bounds (countries, features) ? Without clear advices, sadly some development in this area will be delayed or even not started. Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: OT: Multilanguage Text-To-Speech
Hi Joerg, can you give a pointer to the TTS community? The most active TTS projects are: * eSpeak, multilanguage TTS: http://espeak.sf.net Mailing lists: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=159649 * Festival from CMU, multilanguage TTS: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/ Best regards, Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Status of resellers (Was: GTA02 preorder please?)
Hello Michael, So direct pre-orders to OpenMoko.com are unlikely but in fact, I guess that some of us (in Europe for example) would prefer local resellers. Btw, what is the status of local resellers for France? Thank you Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Multilanguage Text-To-Speech
Hello, FYI, mokoTTS 0.05 has just been released. If you are interested in, you might have speech out of the vox (uh, box) after installing its packages: espeak-pulse, speech-dispatcher (two espeak Chinese packages are also available). Works using Navit, the navigation software; current tests using Emacspeak. https://projects.openmoko.org/projects/mokotts/ Best regards, Gilles From the INSTALL file: Good news :-) : * The upstream speech-dispatcher 0.6.5 and eSpeak 1.31 include our PulseAudio extensions, * OpenEmbbedded includes espeak, speech-dispatcher, libdotconf. mokotts 0.05 provides now the customizations for OpenMoko (on gta01 + pulseaudio 0.9.6) which can not yet be provided upstream, and some tests on the Neo1973. Note: we have the best results at the moment using either: * speech-dispatcher with PulseAudio and espeak providing 44100Hz/stereo samples. This is the default configuration provided by mokotts. We suspect that the 44100Hz/stereo give better results because otherwise PulseAudio 0.9.6 would do CPU intensive resampling. * speech-dispatcher with Alsa and espeak providing 22050Hz/mono samples. This conf is not supplied by default by the mokotts packages because some conflicts can be met with PulseAudio. If you wish to test it, it would be better to stop the PulseAudio server and copy our .asoundrc file under /home/root (available in the tarball in mokotts/test/alsa/.asoundrc.44), and then restart the speech-dispatcher server. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
FYI: Yahoo Go 3.0 (beta)
XML-based widgets: http://mobile.yahoo.com/go Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FYI: Yahoo Go 3.0 (beta)
Nick Guenther wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 3:32 AM, Gilles Casse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XML-based widgets: http://mobile.yahoo.com/go I think... I don't understand. How are these XML based? Do you need a special app to run them or is XML based the new word for DHTML/AJAX (so, need a full webbrowser)? The XML widgets are server side and converted by Yahoo. It seems there is no info atm on the software running on the mobile, the format of data between the mobile and the server. The faq indicates that Ajax or Java are not required for a wider base of possible mobiles. Best regards, Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Gnome Accessibility and OpenMoko
Hello, Would you be interested in evaluating the feasibility of integrating the Gnome Accessibility Project in OpenMoko? We could perhaps join our efforts in a third party project hosted by projects.openmoko.org. Best regards, Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GutenFlash
Bartlomiej Zdanowski [Zdanek] wrote: Any chances to implement speech syntethiser to read the text? I think there's a one on OpenEmbedded. Hi Bartlomiej! Thanks for mentioning this. Yes, in the short term, a talking text reader can be written: it would open a document, and then read it. The most attractive would be to implement the accessibility middleware (atk/at-spi from the GAP project), welcoming then alternative rendering solutions (screen reader, magnifier,..). We could then imagine to point a smallish paragraph and see it displayed instantaneoulsy full screen. Regarding the TTS, yes, Flite, a light English TTS, is already in OpenEmbedded. Btw, we hope also to propose our bitbake recipes for eSpeak and Speech-dispatcher. The current integration is available in mokotts: http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/mokotts/ eSpeak has been customized to include a PulseAudio driver. Another alternative is to use Alsa (Pulse/Alsa can be selected in the Speech dispatcher conf file). Best regards, Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
GutenFlash
Hello, GutenFlash is a RSVP text reader: for example, it displays a text one word at a time in large font on the screen. Gutenflash has just been updated for OpenMoko. More info at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gutenflash Enjoy! Gilles ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: State of the project
Hi, To participate, I need a fire-hose of developer traffic I can pick through. It must exist somewhere... Besides the mailing lists, there are complementary channels of info via bugzilla, svn, and irc: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Development_resources Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: voice command line (was: ssh to a phone ... thats awesome !!)
Several attractive links for French language Gilles Demo Perlbox-voice-fr using eSpeak + Sphinx2 http://download.tuxfamily.org/perlboxfr/video/perlbox-voice-fr-demo.flv commands prefixed by keyword: http://www.neufstream.com/relevance/search/perlbox/video/x2n1zw_reconnaissance-vocale-et-mot-cle_tech webpage: http://perlboxfr.tuxfamily.org/ Announce linuxfr: http://linuxfr.org/~Rkraft/24983.html -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: community Digest, Vol 37, Issue 15
Le mardi 24 juillet 2007, Deepank Gupta a écrit : Running Mokomakefile is slow, because bitbake is a bit slow right now and it build lots and lots of packages. Hi Deepank, The slowliness arrives during building busybox : it was no more possible to use the PC or to ssh in it until the gcc internal error. This was simply due to the swap which was gone as described in the bug report. Once the swap mounted, the PC with 512 MB of RAM can now build the image :-) . Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
MokoMakefile under Ubuntu Feisty
Hello, Here a PC with 512 MB of RAM faced extreme slowliness when running MokoMakefile and finally failed with a gcc internal error :/ MokoMakefile requires more than 512 MB of RAM + Swap space (about 1GB ???). And the swap partition under Feisty was not mounted. Bug #105490 describes this issue and gives a workaround (23 Jul 07): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/105490 Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: projects of interest?
On 7/19/07, Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to train my vocabulary while in the subway. a simple application that shows me a word, and when I tab ob it the translation with two buttons ok / wrong I use FlashBack (but, no sound support): http://freshmeat.net/projects/flashback It will be useful to have an application like the above with sound support. A possibility is to embed in OpenMoko a multi-language text-to-speech for saying the words. A scrupulous native speaker could check that her list of words is correctly said by the TTS. This process as a side effect will help to improve a GPL TTS such as eSpeak :-) . Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Roadmap?
Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 21:35 -0500, Steven ** a écrit : Is this page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications enough of a roadmap? Yes right, this is a roadmap, rather for the core set of OpenMoko developers though. There is no roadmap for the community wish list and I fear that it could lead to never ending discussions on the community list :-) . The core and community developers could work on prioritary targets for providing a rich homogenous release. As an example, Ubuntu seems to work like this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Support for Left handers
Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 20:43 +0100, Giles Jones a écrit : I don't think the visually impaired would be able to use the device anyway. It is not obvious, but I am confident that with good willing people it will become a reality. Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Roadmap?
Hello, Just wondering if a roadmap exists for OpenMoko. If not yet, could consensus emerge regarding the wished features in the forthcoming public release? So that we can possibly contribute to the overall effort. Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
GUI and Energy
A bit of reading for taking patience ;-) Gilles * Energy-Efficient Graphical User Interface Design http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mobile/publications/eegui_accepted.pdf * Graphical User Interface Energy Characterization for Handheld Computers http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mobile/publications/zhong03cases.pdf -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How many FOSS developers users Worldwide?
Le samedi 12 mai 2007 à 09:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I'm trying to find the number of FOSS developers and users worldwide for some marketing related presentations but just can't seem to find any solid numbers. It would also be very interesting to see how this number compares to the number of developers worldwide. These links do not give the overall number of developers but give interesting info though: http://flosspols.org/deliverables.php http://flossproject.org/papers/20060614/RishabGHOSH-gartner2.pdf Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person
Hello, I will be also glad to focus on such a project. As a note, a talking mobile, offering eyes-free applications can probably interest visually impaired or sighted persons. Today, the Linux desktop offers several alternatives for speech enabling applications. For example: * Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak in text-based mode. * The Gnome Accessibility Project, particularly, the Orca and LSR screen readers, distinct Accessibility APIs. Does some of these concepts may benefit to a mobile with native GTK+ based applications? I guess that firstly an evaluation is needed to measure its feasibility. The Speakup and Gnome Accessibility lists have been informed of this thread. For info, eSpeak is a GPL voice synthesizer: http://espeak.sf.net Some features: - multi languages, - small footprint, - runs on Intel or ARM platforms. Today it works with Orca, Speakup (via Speech-Dispatcher), Emacspeak and more. eSpeak will be the default voice synthesizer in Ubuntu Feisty. Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Gestures and Unicode Input
Ben Burdette wrote: I don't want to discourage you guys, I'm all for developing a motion recognition system. It would be cool for using with a speakerphone output to spell words when you don't want to look at the screen. Using gestures to navigate an audio based UI would be great for the blind too. But for password entry it seems very insecure. I mean, wouldn't entering a password with gestures be like sending secret messages with signal flags? Anyone who knows the system could just read what you were entering. The gesture could be done eyes-free the phone hidden in a pocket. The touch screen could hopefully be used as a chord keyboard with speech feedback thanks to the eSpeak voice synthesizer. Would the Neo become the next stage of Steve Mann's experimentations? http://wearcam.org/steve5.jpg :-) Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
