OT: MediaWiki Updates

2007-03-27 Thread tech
Dear all, I want to listen for OpenMokO wiki updates through some RSS reader. Is this possible? If yes, please let me know how to do it. Thanks in Advance, Karthik ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd.
Hi. I thought about voice synthesizer software to build in OpenMoko for blind person. I know some blind people and currently they can only use Nokia with Symbian and proper software. Does anyone have any experience with voice synthesizer soft and can provide some info whether it can be

Re: OT: MediaWiki Updates

2007-03-27 Thread Vincent
On 27/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I want to listen for OpenMokO wiki updates through some RSS reader. Is this possible? If yes, please let me know how to do it. Thanks in Advance, Karthik ___ OpenMoko

Re: OT: MediaWiki Updates

2007-03-27 Thread Vincent
On 27/03/07, Alessandro Iurlano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I want to listen for OpenMokO wiki updates through some RSS reader. Is this possible? If yes, please let me know how to do it. Thanks in Advance, Karthik

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-27 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:54 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to which you hope to sell this phone. Essentially any laser device

Re: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote, On 27/03/07 17:53: Hi. I thought about voice synthesizer software to build in OpenMoko for blind person. I know some blind people and currently they can only use Nokia with Symbian and proper software. Does anyone have any experience with voice

Re: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd.
Arthur Marsh napisał(a): A large, high contrast display would help many vision impaired people, and a well-thought out spoken menu system with speech synthesis would help many low vision and completely blind people. The FIC 1973 does have the drawback of there being no tactile feedback for

RE: OpenMoko at Embedded Systems Conference?

2007-03-27 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:30 +0200, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: Will anyone else from FIC or OpenMoko be there ? Not at this time. We're all busy trying to get hardware shipping. -Sean ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Right I forgot about tactile display but plastic keys should be great. I think it should work because all PDA point-sticks work great. Touch-keys don't have to be clear... because blind person don't care about it,

Re: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread adrian cockcroft
There are a lot of people who can't read the tiny fonts on their phone screen. I'm particularly interested in making a UI variant that is optimized for people with failing eyesight, but not completely blind. I have a friend with macular degeneration who wants me to make a phone she can use, and

Re: Adapter for MicroSD Card

2007-03-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:00:37 Jonathon Suggs wrote: Will there be a standard SD card adapter for reading/writing to the included microSD card from a PC? I'm getting ready to purchase a card reader and wanted to know if I also needed to purchase an adapter. If so, were can you buy just

Re: Adapter for MicroSD Card

2007-03-27 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: I dont know in general, but all Sandisk microsd cards I've seen have been shipped with microSD to SD adapters. I know that when you purchase a microSD card it will come with an adapter, but doesn't the Neo come with an included microSD card? If so, does the Neo also

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-27 Thread michael
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:54 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to which you hope to sell

Re: Master Studies in Embedded systems starts in Pforzheim/Germany

2007-03-27 Thread homyx
Wolfgang Silbermayr schrieb: I am just finishing the Bacchelor grade in HSSE (Hardware/Software Systems Engineering) in Hagenberg in Austria. Here at the university we have the master following to HSSE called Embedded Systems Design. In addition we also have a branch of study called Mobile

Re: OpenMoko at Embedded Systems Conference?

2007-03-27 Thread Steven **
Yah. I was wondering about that. A friend of mine keeps bugging me asking when is it going to be available? I just keep responding end of March. We wait with bated breath. -Steven On 3/27/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not at this time. We're all busy trying to get hardware

Re: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Bradley Hook
I work at the Kansas School for the Blind. Portable computing devices for the visually impaired are extremely expensive, so seeing an affordable OpenMoko device that is blind-friendly would be great. Personally, I am interested in OpenMoko because I think using a phone for remote administration

Mokomake mkae setup fails

2007-03-27 Thread Ewan Marshall
Make setup for mokomakefile is giving this error: make setup [ -e bitbake ] || \ ( svn co -r HEAD svn://svn.berlios.de/bitbake/branches/bitbake-1.6 bitbake ) [ -e OE.mtn ] || \ ( ( wget -c -O OE.mtn.bz2 http://www.openembedded.org/snapshots/OE-this-is-for-mtn-0.31.mtn.bz2 || \

RE: Master Studies in Embedded systems starts in Pforzheim/Germany

2007-03-27 Thread Graham Auld
Hi Wolfgang, Sadly I left last September, however looking at the money spent on my project work last year indeed a couple of neo's could have been purchaced, indeed since my work involved fitting a chair sized robot with an embedded computer system a device like the neo with it's usb connectivity

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-27 Thread kkr
Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 18:07 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:54 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Stirling
kkr wrote: Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 18:07 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:54 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to

Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Gilles Casse
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,

Re: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-27 Thread Robin Paulson
as coincidence would have it BBC Radio 4 had a piece today about mobile phones for the blind, and the consesus was that a talking phone would drive a partially sighted user mad within a few minutes. to listen to it all (free): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/intouch.ram should

Audio I/O questions

2007-03-27 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! I'm very happy that the Neo1973 has - stero headphone out - mono mic in (for headset) this give us much power for having much fun with the neo. : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_Hardware#Analog_wired_Headset Analog wired Headset There's a four-ring 2.5mm stereo jack which

Re: Mokomake mkae setup fails

2007-03-27 Thread Rod Whitby
Ewan Marshall wrote: Make setup for mokomakefile is giving this error: mtn: error: I/O failure while talking to peer monotone.openembedded.org, disconnecting This I can do nothing about. Either OpenMoko Inc. needs to find a monotone server that can handle the load, or you just need to keep

GSM Sidetone?

2007-03-27 Thread Mike Hodson
Hi there, I was just browsing the wiki and saw a bug with the current GTA01Bv3 regarding the over-loudness of the GSM module's sidetone generation. I for one am curious if there will be ability to turn this completely and utterly off, as on every phone i've owned that has one (numerous nokia

Re: community Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9

2007-03-27 Thread Joseph Ryan Victoria
Hi Homyx, Wolfgang! Do you have any project in mind with regards to using Neo? I'm also taking my MS degree here in the Philippines and I'm focusing on mobile computing/telecoms too. Maybe you can share your thoughts. Thanks! - Ryan - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Audio I/O questions

2007-03-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 00:52:20 Robert Michel wrote: Ahh.. I can hear it with the Neo1973 headset as well, wenn I pull out the headset for 0,7mm - mybe my 2,5 mm 4 pin jack is not accurat enough. Not strictly what you asked, but working adapter jacks for Moto V360 (which as I understand