Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Andreas Stemmer
Sébastien Hinderer: > I fear it's not what we want. Once you hear the beeps, it's too late already, > you are listening o tThe previous / next track and forced to search > the passage you were listening to again... What I wished to have sometimes already was a general undo function. This would be

RE: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread RaeNye
Maybe you'd like to put this feature request on FlySpray: When "skip forward" is followed by a "skip backward" (or vice versa), return to the same position instead of restarting. This might fit well with flushing codec buffer only after ~5 seconds. Seems feasible for me. -Original Message-

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi, Bryn Smith : > I used to use a Sony Discman that used to sound two quick beeps in the > headphones when you skipped tracks so you could tell if you weren't > looking at the screen. Would that be something that would help with the > 'bus problem'? I fear it's not what we want. Once you hear t

RE: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Bryn Smith
I used to use a Sony Discman that used to sound two quick beeps in the headphones when you skipped tracks so you could tell if you weren't looking at the screen. Would that be something that would help with the 'bus problem'? Just a thought... Cheers, Bryn -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Stéphane Doyon
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: Stéphane Doyon wrote: -And there's a few features that would be useful to audio book readers... for one, it's too easy to skip to the next track when you just wanted to adjust the volume, and the bus happened to hit a bump at that moment...

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi again, > Yes that's one of the first issues I spotted when I tried to make my own > voice file. I think the maximum has indeed been reached. Now it seems it > only fits by making the speech faster (so it takes less time) :-). We > can't just stop adding more speech though: features keep bein

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Stéphane, dear rockbox developers, > If I may ask (candidly): how much interest is there for what I'm trying to > do, which is to improve speech support and accessibility? As a blind user of Rockbox, I am _very_ interested in your patches. That's just wonderful to discover that there are bl

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Peter D'Hoye
> -The recording screen doesn't speak. It also ought to have some sort of > optional beep on starting recording, and some other beep on stopping, so > you know it got the key press. It used to speak but because of the new encoder framework the codec needed for speech can't be loaded anymore (afa

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Stéphane Doyon wrote: -And there's a few features that would be useful to audio book readers... for one, it's too easy to skip to the next track when you just wanted to adjust the volume, and the bus happened to hit a bump at that moment... Audio book tracks can be very long, so it can be VERY

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Stéphane Doyon
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, [IDC]Dragon wrote: P#6159: Add voice to roughly 100 splashe screens and yesno menus, without cluttering the code too much. The menus should all be voiced from the early days on (except for the debug menu), definitely including the yes/no choices. Am I missing something,

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread [IDC]Dragon
> P#6159: Add voice to roughly 100 splashe screens and yesno menus, without > cluttering the code too much. The menus should all be voiced from the early days on (except for the debug menu), definitely including the yes/no choices. Am I missing something, did something got lost while I'm out?

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Will Robertson
I'm indifferent about the info screen talkativeness, but I really like the splash screen work, and a talking quick screen would be excellent.I really hope someone can find the time to look at these patches and commit them, I believe they would enhance the voice experience a significant amount. Will

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Andrew Hart
Lots of interest. There are loads of blind folk using Rockbox and all efforts to make it even more useful and usable speechwise are greatly appreciated. I'll have to go check out these patches! Cheers, Andrew. Stéphane Doyon wrote: Hi, I would like to point out the patches I uploaded to Fl