This sounds like a good idea. I think voices take more memory than most
other features, so maybe two on any device at a time is enough. I know other
players have different firmware files you download for a different voice,
but if the rest gets too big, a program where you download all they have and
build one with what you want in it could be cool. I don't know of any
products that do that where you choose the firmware components you want, but
there can always be a first.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:49 AM
Subject: [GW-Booksense] New Voices, Features, and then Some
The available memory to programme features into a digital player is finite.
All of us have different items that are important to us as individuals. For
example, for me the ability to support files that are protected by DRM
(digital rights management) would be more beneficial than a variety of
voices. Not that a choice of voices isn't important to me, it is all with
respect to ranking.
On the subject of voices, I would like an option that supports English other
than the U. S. version. It is just one of those pet peeves, similar to how
some of us do not use myself and yourself correctly, I like certain things
pronounced some what differently than what is deemed to be a U. S.
pronunciation. For instance zee versus zed.
Going back to my original statement about memory being finite, I see the
requirement for a firmware utility that allows us to customize how we want a
digital player to operate. This can be done through a series of radio
buttons and check boxes. If I don't switch between voices, then I might like
the option of having a female UK English voice and my second option might be
Canadian French male. Then I can check off the file types I want supported.
This way we all can manage our options so that they fit nicely into the
available space.
Once I have selected all of my options and synthesizers, the utility
generates the firmware file that I can put onto the root of an SD card then
perform the update as per usual.
Should this idea prove to be manageable, all the compensation I require is
that GW Micro continue to provide me with great service. They can claim the
idea as their own.
Vic Pereira
Chief Informatics Office | Bureau de l'informatique
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