Opie-reader Learns Speaking Options

[malik]

this would be a nice application!


malik

[TimW]

I've got something working using the "invoke flite for each paragraph" approach. It works surprisingly well but I was only just able to run it on my SL5000D. OTOH, I do use very highly compressed documents which require several megabytes to decompress and I managed to bork my root partition by installing more apps to it than there was space for them so it may be that you won't get memory overload if you install it right. It should work okay on any of the production Zaurii though (I think - I obviously can't guarantee it since I don't have any of them).

I also did some tweaks to reduce the memory usage compared to my first attempt but I'd already borked my zaurus by overfilling the root partition at that point (I usually use OZ so I haven't tried too hard to fix it yet). I checked it out on the desktop so I believe it works okay. The code to do it is actually pretty trivial once you decide that you don't mind the overhead of invoking flite separately for each paragraph.

If anybody has a sharp based rom and wants to try it e-mail me at timwentford at hotmail dot com.

I'll be fixing my sharp based zaurus and retrying it and then I'll have a go at opie but as the code is so simple it should be in all new opie-reader releases (though as I don't have a proper compiler for the opie rom it may be a while before it gets into the opie CVS/feeds).

[padishah_emperor]

I've got something working using the "invoke flite for each paragraph" approach. It works surprisingly well but I was only just able to run it on my SL5000D. OTOH, I do use very highly compressed documents which require several

Tim, PM me or send me an email if you want me to test it on Qtopia 1.7 on a Yopy with flite.
-Francis-