Re: Goooooood news, touch screen works !

Hey guys, been lurking for a bit. In answer to #2, seems the x50 (and any
wm2003 machine, supposedly) can run flite, check this out if you haven't
seen it before, works great on my x50v. It's a wm2003 compile of flite. The
only problem is that it's kind of hard to understand at times (8khz
samples... fixable?)

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/flite.htm

--giacomo

On 12/30/05, Terry D. Cudney <terry.cudney_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Angel,
>
> thanks for your reply...
>
> In fact, speakup is a set of kernel patches that you must apply to
> the kernel source before compiling for your machine. there are a few
> pre-compiled kernels with speakup already patched in, but it's best to do a
> custom configuration.
>
> Until recently, speakup depended on a hardware speech synthesizer
> connected to the serial port. Now there is software speech available using
> festival (or flite (festival lite) which are GPL'ed and software dectalk
> which is a binary only commercial tts (text to speech) engine that has been
> interfaced to the speakup code
>
> there is an intermediary piece of GPL'ed software called speech
> dispatcher that gives a more device independent interface to the driver of
> the tts device whether that is hardware or software speech.
>
> I fear the problems are:
>
> 1) binary-only Software Dectalk is out of the question for another
> architecture, it's x86 specific. (Although, I understand that there is a
> Windows Mobile version of software Dectalk from Fonix running on the Dell
> pda). Being commercial, proprietary the licensing of this software is not
> appealing.
>
> 2) festival and flite are quite large and cpu intensive, I don't
> know how well a pda would handle the task. I'd like to think it would do OK,
> but don't really understand the connections betwen the audio
> hardware/subsystem and the tts engine.
>
> Speakup, is just the facility to allow control of what is spoken
> from the text console. Check out the speakup site at www.linux-speakup.org.
> Maybe you can have more insight as to the possibilities there.
>
> thanks for your time and interest in responding to my query.
>
> --terry
>
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Angel Sánchez Morales wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The cool thing about linux is that you only need to recompile the source
> > for executing any app in other hardware, well... the good thing about
> > linux is that you can compile it for youself :p
> >
> > So at first if it works on your desktop it should work on the pda if
> > there isn't any machine specific code on the source.
> >
> > If you have problems running it you can always try to contact the
> > developer of the app you need.
> >
> >
> >
> > Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > > This is good news! Going in the right direction...
> > >
> > > I have an Axiom x50 with Humanware's Maestro/Trekker software
> > > running on WM 2003 to give voice output since I am blind. I use
> > > linux with speakup on my desktop/laptop machines and would love to
> > > have linux with speech output (preferably speakup) on the Dell.
> > > Does anyone have any idea of the feasibility of this? I figure if
> > > speech output can be done under WM2003, it should be possible and
> > > better under linux... I suspect that drivers for the speech tts
> and
> > > audio chips will be the hurdle?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any feedback/observations in this regard. Is anyone, in
> > > fact looking at this area at present?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > --terry
> > >
> > >On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:29:32PM +0800, Fisherss wrote:
> > >
> > >>Exactly boot from main memory and load graphic user interface from SD
> > >>card with touch screen support.
> > >>
> > >>Jorge Schrauwen wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Ok I've been on vacation for the last 2 weeks...
> > >>>so from quickly reading over this...
> > >>>
> > >>>You manged to get linux to boot from SD, with a screen driver with
> > >>>touchpad support?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>On 1/1/06, Don McMorris <don.mcmorris_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>I've been quietly monitoring the list, hoping to one day put Linux
> on
> > >>>>my Axim X50v. I'm not going to do it until a full build is
> available,
> > >>>>and fairly trivial to install (IE: no custom drivers, etc.).
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I write today to encourage you to keep up the good work!
> > >>>>Unfortunately, I lack sufficient knowlege to contribute code, but
> I'll
> > >>>>be in the bleachers cheerin' you on1
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Goooooooooo Axim!
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Keep up the good work, everybody!
> > >>>>
> > >>>>--Don
> > >>>>
> > >>>>On 12/31/05, jp <insanelysick1_at_tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>Yeah its gona be so much better than this windows mobile
> > >>>>>crap.nespecially windows mobile 5.
> > >>>>>how far along is usb networking?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>rada b. wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>Wow guys thats awesome! I cant wait to have linux on my Axim
> > >>>>>>:-D:-D:-D:-D!!!
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>--
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> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
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> > >>>
> > >>>--
> > >>>~Jorge
> > >>>
> > >>
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