iPod and Voice Issues

[wesderby]

I purchased a 30GB iPod Video last Friday night, and loaded Rockbox onto it.. As a blind user, I find Rockbox makes the iPod VERY user-friendly, but I do have some issues/questions about the voice commands and capabilities.  Unfortunately, I know nothing about coding, so would be of no help in actually developing fixes.

In case it matters, I just upgraded my iPod to the current build about an hour and a half ago (10:30 PM Pacific, on 2/24/07).

First, are there plans to make Rockbox able to speak ALL of the menues?  I ask this because I noticed that under the "Database" menu, I don't hear all the options.  I hear "Load to Ram", "Auto Update", and "Include Runtime Data".  Under Load to Ram, I can choose between Yes and No...Under Auto Update, it doesn't speak the Yes or No.  Also, my wife, who is sighted, was helping me, and was able to see other options such as "Update Now", and "Initialize", but they were not spoken.  The way she described it, the ones it does speak have a "white dot" next to them, and the ones not spoken have a "black dot", according to her.  What I'm wondering is, is there any adjustment I can make to make these unspoken options speak?

Second, I have a large music collection.  I have it set to speak an MP3 clip for both directories and filenames...However, I noticed that, if I select "ID3 Database" under "Show Files", Rockbox will speak a folder number (right now, one through 12), and if I select that folder, it will spell the tag info for each track in that folder.  Obviously, this is not a useful way to browse.  Is it possible for someone to build the ability to speak the ID3 database propperly, so that blind users (or even those sighted folks who don't want to read the screen while driving) can browse using the database and search by artist, album, genre, and so-on?

Any help anyone can give would be appreciated.  In my searches of the forums and documentation, I couldn't find the answers to my questions.  This is my first post, so if I've posted in the wrong place, I apologize.

[Llorean]

No, this is exactly the right place for that kind of question.

It looks like voicing of certain menus was broken during the rewrite of the menuing system. I'm not certain yet, but I'm going to attempt to point this out to the person who'd been working on the menu restructuring, and hopefully he'll either know what caused it, or look into it.

[JdGordon]

damn, OK, Ill look into it as soon as I get a chance

[pixelma]

It looks like voicing of certain menus was broken during the rewrite of the menuing system.

I'm not too sure that this is only caused by the recent menu rework - at least this would be only a part of the problem.

The other reason is that (as far as I know) the downloadable voice files are a bit outdated at the moment, so these new features just aren't in the voice file yet. I've been told the goal is to provide new ones after the language-file cleanup is done so that the voice files could be target specific too.

Maybe some kind person in the forums can provide you a more recent (self-made) voice file and you could try that. Hope this helps.

[wesderby]

Thanks for all the kind replies so far.  Sounds like the thing for me to do, for now, is to keep periodically downloading new builds, and to keep checking back on the voice files to see if they've been updated.  Otherwise, like I said, I think Rockbox is a great program, and I'd recommend it to anyone, blind or sighted.