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
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For info, future 'universal charger' based on micro usb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7894763.stm
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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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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Hello,
For info, a new ipk for Gutenflash (Rapid text reader) is available:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gutenflash
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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
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
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:
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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).
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
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.
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
XML-based widgets:
http://mobile.yahoo.com/go
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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
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
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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.
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!
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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
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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:
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
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
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):
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
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.
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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
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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
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
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,
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
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