Hi Everyone,
I am a very new member on this list.
My name is Endre Csapó, I am from Hungary, I am a blind computer user and
programmer, who has since 2011 a Sansa Clip Plus player, used it a little and
almost completely abandoned and trashed it due its annoying blind accessibility
issues until this week, when I'd found the Rockbox site with this marvelous
softice thingie.
I am a Windows user and mostly use and develop for win32, namely for XP or win7
32-bit.
I've installed the Rockbox manually on my Sansa and it works fairly nicely. I
may say: the Rockbox resurrected the player for me.
I am here and not on the user mailing list, because I stumbled upon a very
nasty problem, which is not a bug, but can cause a lot of headaches for some
users and calls for developer intervention.
Using the Rockbox Utility I've tried to generate a hungarian (magyar) voice
file.
The RBU had read out the necessary strings from the installation and have begun
to produce the .voice file.
And this creation phase has never ended,never had got completed, it always
remained at 0 percent.
I have many installed SAPI 5 and SAPI 4 TTS engines for many languages, because
I am often producing mp3 audiobooks for language learners. Many in this case
means more than 25 engines from various vendors.
There are installed - among others - some hungarian TTS engines too. Some of
them are open sapi engines but some are dedicated. In this case the word
dedicated means that only some applications or only one of them can use the TTS
service of that engine and no others in any case.
The RBU certainly had found such a hungarian TTS engine and tried to attach to
it. The TTS vendors very often omit the correct error handling and in any such
case it may occur that the "unlicensed" client application cannot detect the
rejection from the dedicated TTS engine.
For remedy tis problem, only one sure solution exists: intelligent human
intervention.
In the RBU program, on the voice file creation dialog box would be necessary a
dropdown combo list with the names of the installed SAPI engines and to let the
user choose from them the correct one, because only she/he knows which is open
variant and fits for the given language. (A very big bunch of TTS engines even
incorrectly reports its talking language for the Windows SAPI manager system,
so there is not any guarantee that a program can or will select one correctly
upon the language selection solely.)
If these changes will be made to the RBU, I would be pleased to test it and
write a test report about it here.
With Regards:
Endre
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