Toshiba F Series manual Voice

Chapter 8. General Settings 62

8.8 Voice

Voice Menus. This option controls the voicing of menus/settings as they are selected by the cursor. In order for this to work, a voice le must be present in the /.rockbox/langs/ directory on the player. Voice les are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default. The voice le is the name of the language for which it is made, followed by the extension .voice. So for English, the le name would be english.voice. This option is on by default, but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice le is installed in the correct place on the player. The Voice Menus have several limitations:

Setting the Sound Option Channels to Karaoke may disable voice menus.

Plugins and the wake up alarm do not support voice features.

Voice Directories. This option controls voicing of directory names. A voice le must be present for this to work. Several options are available.

Spell. Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter. Support is provided only for the most common letters, numbers and punctuation.

Numbers. Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the le list. They are then announced as \Directory 1", \Directory 2" etc.

O. No attempt will be made to speak directory names.

You can use pre-generated .talk clips to have directory names spoken properly, but you must enable this explicitly (see below).

Use Directory .talk Clips. This option turns on the use of .talk clips for directories.

On. Use special pre-recorded MP3 les ( dirname.talk) in each directory. These must be generated in advance, and are typically produced synthetically using a text-to-speech engine on a PC.

O. No checking is made for directory .talk clips; they are not used even if present. This can reduce disk activity.

Use of a .talk clip takes precedence over other directory name voicing. Otherwise (e.g. if a .talk clip is not available), voicing uses the method set under Voice Directories above.

Voice Filenames. This option controls voicing of lenames. Again, a voice le must be present for this to work. The options provided are Spell, Numbers, and Off which function the same as for Voice Directories. You can use pre-generated

.talk clips to have lenames spoken properly, but you must enable this explicitly (see below).

Use File .talk Clips. This option turns on the use of .talk clips for les.

On. Use special pre-recorded MP3 les for each le. This functions the same as for directories except that the .talk clip le must have the same name as the described le with an extra .talk extension (e.g. Punkadiddle.mp3 would require a le called Punkadiddle.mp3.talk).

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