Text to Speech.......Make MediaPortal Talk (4 Viewers)

[Inker]

hi clodo,

depends on what you mean by "retrieving this kind of information". obviosly you can just get the current time and date with .net datetime.now methods.

as for upcoming recordings, its all saved in the TVDatabaseV21.db3. take a look at the database methods in the source. should be very easy to find out the next recordings. as im sure you know, you can just pass in an sql query and get back a result set. so just order the recordings by startime (which also includes the date (format is like this: 20051025175900) and then limit the results to be greater than the current date time.

actually, the sql should look something like this:

select recording.strProgram, recording.iStartTime, channel.strChannel 
from recording, channel
where recording.iStartTime > "right now" // have to create that string
and channel.idChannel = recording.idChannel
order by recording.iStartTime
limit 1;

yeah, that works
so that gives you back a resultset with the next recording.

would be glad to see this improve

 

[nallan]

speech enabling mp interface for the blind

I've been reading with some interest this thread. I'm totally blind and am currently on a quest to find a pvr application that is actually useable by a totaly blind computer user. Unfortunately due to the interface all these pvr applications use, the screen reader which provides a speech feedback interface don't seem to be able to read items as you arrow through them. Would a speech plugin for mp be able to do this? The standard screen reader "jaws" is capable of reading any actual text on screen. If anyone is interested you can download a fully functional demo from http://www.freedomscientific.com
It would be prefered that jaws handle the speech, but a speech plugin that would allow navigation around the application would help a lot.
What do people think. is a speech plugin for navigation a possibility? is it even possible?

 

[blindviewer]

Just what all blind people are looking for!

Hi.
As a blind person is it just what we are looking for, it would be fantastic if MP could speak out with a sapi5 voice when i go through the menues and lists and the EPG, today we dosen't have any solution using a MediaCenter so it could be the greatest christmas gift for all blind people in the world if MP could talk!

Best regards

BlindViewer