Thanks again Tim.
I have things just as you have suggested. I shall persevere however - it
would be worthwhile getting it to work.
Take care.
Gordon
- Original Message -
From: "Timothy"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
You should have it to spell, but it doesn't matter. Generating them on the
Sansa perfectly fine. I do it all the
time. If you had a file called 1.mp3, there should also be a file named
1.mp3.talk in the same folder where you have the file.
- Original Message -
From: "G. McFarlane"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
HI Tim
Yes, I did generate the talks files. I also have set the Directories and
Files to work with talks. Somehow or other it still doesn't speak them
Was it wrong to generate them on the Sandisk itself? Should I have done
it on the computer then transferred it to the player?
Alsshould I keep on the speaking directories and files with numbers or
spelling? When I switch them off nothing gets spoken.
I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I haven't hit on what yet.
Gordon
- Original Message -
From: "Timothy"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
You need to do this for folder and file names. Settings --> General
settings --> Voice --> use .talk clips for file names/use .talk clips
for directories. You did generate them using voicebox, correct?
- Original Message -
From: "G. McFarlane"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still
can't get the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do not
get spoken. I've also been into the settings and tried activating the
'use talk files' with and without directory and file speaking with
spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or language I
need to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?
Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message -
From: "Timothy"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become
clear after that.
Feel free to contact me on or off list.
- Original Message -
From: "G. McFarlane"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what
Rock Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to
grips with this.
Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message -
From: "John Chilelli"
To: "pC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: "Timothy"
From: John Chilelli
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250
Timothy,
Please tell me how I go about extracting the
rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the player's drive.
When I click on the filename on my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox
folder. When I click on that, it simply opens up a list of files.
What do I do with this list of files?
Thanks,
John
At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible
to VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.
Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader:
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file:
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip
After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so
that the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel
should be closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the
headphone jack to the left if it is not already there. Connect your
mp3 player to your PC.
2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make
sure, disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the
player, go to Settings --> USB Mode, and press select on MSC.
3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the
player's drive.
4. Run the bootloader, and follow the inst
