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Help installing voice in sansa clip plus.

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jaisonpaul:
Hi, My clip plus just died, but I had a brand new one I've been keeping in the wings for this sad day. I opened it up and charged it and it wouldn't turn on. I figure it's the battery, from being in storage so long. Must be 5 years old or more. I found it in a shop in germany - had seen it 4 years ago on a bike trip, then, when I realized they were discontinued, I stopped in again (on another bike trip) last summer and had a look. It was still there, 3 years later! So I haggled the price down to 40 euros and took it home. --- Anyhow, I did realize my PC can see it and I installed rockbox and put a voice file in the right place. What I want to do is activate the voice thing so I can see if this thing's issue is a dead screen or a dead battery. If the battery is good, I can use the player blind! I'd be chuffed! --- Sooo, could someone with a clip plus please take the time to throw a voice file in the language folder, then via the menus, activate it, then tell me precisely which clicks I need to do from turning it on, to get to the right menu, choose the voice file, activate it, save the setting, and get it working? I only have three files in my language folder to make it easy on me. If it stays alphabetical that would be the 2nd click for me. I'd really appreciate it if someone could be bothered to do this for me. I love my clip plus and would be in heaven to have one going again! Thanks!

username_already_taken:
Use the config files in .rockbox/ to activate voice support.

Connect the Clip+ to your PC and use the Rockbox Utility to install the latest stable version (3.14) and voice file pack.
You can also use the dev versions but for testing purposes start with stable.

Before disconnecting the dap from your computer, go into the .rockbox directory and create a fixed.cfg file (if you're using Windows, be careful with hidden file extensions, it has to be fixed.cfg, not fixed.cfg.txt) with these lines:

talk dir: spell
talk dir clip: on
talk file: spell
talk file clip: on

These lines enable voice operation and .talk file support which you'll probably want to use later.

Because they're added to fixed.cfg they will always be enabled when you turn on the dap, even if you accidentally turn them off during operation.
This also means that if you want to change some of these permanently, like say disabling .talk files and make voice refer to directories by number instead of spelling the filename, you must edit your fixed.cfg otherwise your changes are reset on every reboot.
That can done by enabling your chosen settings in the dap, powering it off, connecting it to the PC before turning it on again, and copying the relevant lines from the config.cfg file in the .rockbox directory to fixed.cfg

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