Database and voiced menus and tracks

[royal]

Rockbox is great! Voiced menus are great, but...
the database will only spell or number the selections... 

For me, the jungle of files in the file system, especially when you have an expansion memory card, are cumbersome to navigate.  The database seems to be the best option, however, all I can get is either a number or spelled choices.   

Is there a way to get the database to be spoken - not spelled or numbered?

I know that the database is highly customizable, but it seems that it should be an option to make files to activate voiced menus even for the database...

Am I missing something?

[MarcGuay]

Rockbox doesn't have it's own voice engine so you need to build the voice files yourself.  Here's a link to some info:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceHowto

[Chronon]

That wiki article only mentions voicing for directories and filenames, not Database lists. 

[MarcGuay]

Indeed, you are correct, sir.  A little searching concludes that the database cannot be voiced.

[royal]

Indeed, you are correct, sir.  A little searching concludes that the database cannot be voiced.

You mean as in is not implemented, or as in impossible?
I couldn't find it in my previous searches, but has anyone filed a bug or feature request for this?  (Am I the only one that feels this to be an issue?)

[Llorean]

It's not a bug, so please do not file a bug report on it.

[linuxstb]

This is a well-known limitation in Rockbox's voice UI - hopefully someone will implement it at some point.

But in the meantime, you could organise your "jungle of files" so that using the file browser is a more pleasant experience.  Most people use a structure such as "/Music/Artist Name/Album Name/NN-Track Name.mp3".

[Chronon]

I saw a patch on the tracker toward this, but it's probably quite out of date now and seemed to have some limitations, such as not being able to speak lines that contain more than one tag (e.g. tracknumber - trackname)..