Version for location based app using wrt

[rajanmr]

Hi,
I am developing a Speech enabled GPS Navigator using WRT. I am making use of JavaScript Location Service API and google map api for development. Now i know wrt widgets will work in all s60 5th edition mobile for sure. I also read that some of 3rd edition FP-2 mobiles are capable of running WRT widgets.

I want to know whether the project which I mentioned above is capable of running in 3rd edition FP-2 mobiles?

Also let me know if there is any possibility of porting wrt app into 3rd edition Fp-1 mobiles. Right now I have E-71.

Another help needed for me is how to add voice output using WRT.

This is my final year college project.

[isalento]

Hi,
I am developing a Speech enabled GPS Navigator using WRT. I am making use of JavaScript Location Service API and google map api for development. Now i know wrt widgets will work in all s60 5th edition mobile for sure. I also read that some of 3rd edition FP-2 mobiles are capable of running WRT widgets.

I want to know whether the project which I mentioned above is capable of running in 3rd edition FP-2 mobiles?

Also let me know if there is any possibility of porting wrt app into 3rd edition Fp-1 mobiles. Right now I have E-71.

Another help needed for me is how to add voice output using WRT.

This is my final year college project.

Hello,

The complete list of devices which supports WRT 1.1 is available here. There should not be big issues on those 3rd ed. FP2 devices, since they use the same browser as N97 (BrowserNG/7.1). Only thing that you must take into account is to enable navigation without touch (tabbed or cursor navigation mode).

I would say that you can forget 3.1 devices as they don't support platform services. So Location service API is not available. Of course you could use API Bridge, but it is up to you to decide if it is worth of the extra work.


One way to play sounds is to use simple embed-object

//HTML
<button onclick="playSound('piano.wav')">Play Sound</button>
<div id="sounds"></div>

//JavaScript
function playSound(soundUrl) {
   var sc = document.getElementById("sounds");
   
   var sound = document.createElement("embed");
   sound.setAttribute("src", soundUrl);
   sound.setAttribute("hidden","true");
   sound.setAttribute("autostart", "true");
   sound.setAttribute("loop", "false");
   sc.appendChild(sound);    
}

Br,
Ilkka - FN

[rajanmr]

Thanks very much for providing the list of devices. To be in the safer side I have decided to use Nokia 5800 for my project.

Coming to the code for voice you have provided, it is for playing stored music files like .wmv or .mp3. But what I need is a text-to-Speech engine. I need it to speak out a line of text using the mobile speaker. The text will be a string variable or a file content.

Please let me know if there is a text-2-speech engine to be used with wrt or other third party engines which i can use with wrt??

Hello,

The complete list of devices which supports WRT 1.1 is available here. There should not be big issues on those 3rd ed. FP2 devices, since they use the same browser as N97 (BrowserNG/7.1). Only thing that you must take into account is to enable navigation without touch (tabbed or cursor navigation mode).



I would say that you can forget 3.1 devices as they don't support platform services. So Location service API is not available. Of course you could use API Bridge, but it is up to you to decide if it is worth of the extra work.


One way to play sounds is to use simple embed-object

//HTML
<button onclick="playSound('piano.wav')">Play Sound</button>
<div id="sounds"></div>

//JavaScript
function playSound(soundUrl) {
   var sc = document.getElementById("sounds");
   
   var sound = document.createElement("embed");
   sound.setAttribute("src", soundUrl);
   sound.setAttribute("hidden","true");
   sound.setAttribute("autostart", "true");
   sound.setAttribute("loop", "false");
   sc.appendChild(sound);    
}

Br,
Ilkka - FN

[isalento]

There is no support for Text To Speech in WRT. However you could write a server component that calls Symbian TTS. One more feasible solution is to use some text to speech web service, however the latency might be too big.

I'm just thinking that you should be able to get quite far by just using recorded voices. Like "turn right" "turn left" and "make a U turn " in navigation application.

Br,
Ilkka

[rajanmr]

thanks again. My primary plan was to create 3 mp3 files like "turn right", "turn left" and "Make a u-turn". BUt due to the license and TOS of Google maps, What I am getting is routing instructions like

"Head North on S Morgan st towards W cermak Road"

So the idea pre-creating sound files and playing them did not work.

Your second suggestion looks like a more feasible one. text to speech web service. I am looking deep into it. I have found some such web service providers. but only one of them provide me with the api, i have contacted them and awaiting their reply.

I think it is possible to do text to speech in symbian c++. Please let me if i can incorporate c++ in wrt . Or use both wrt and c++ simultaneously by passing arguments between the two.

There is no support for Text To Speech in WRT. However you could write a server component that calls Symbian TTS. One more feasible solution is to use some text to speech web service, however the latency might be too big.

I'm just thinking that you should be able to get quite far by just using recorded voices. Like "turn right" "turn left" and "make a U turn " in navigation application.

Br,
Ilkka

[rajanmr]

Hi isalento,
I tried the code which you gave here. below is my source code. This is not playing sound in my mobile and also in the emulator. Please let me know what I have done wrong.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="WRTKit/WRTKit.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="basic.css" type="text/css">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Nokia WRT plug-in for Aptana Studio 2.3.0" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function playSound() {
var soundUrl="voice.wav";
var sc = document.getElementById("sounds");
var sound = document.createElement("embed");
sound.setAttribute("src", soundUrl);
sound.setAttribute("hidden","true");
sound.setAttribute("autostart", "true");
sound.setAttribute("loop", "false");
sc.appendChild(sound);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<input type="button" style="height: 100px; width: 100px" value="curloc" onclick="playsound()">
</div>
<div id="sounds"></div>
</body>
</html>

but it is not playing the sound. Can you point what I am doing wrong. Also should I modify the info.plist file? if so how to change it. it is not playing sound both in emulator and also in the mobile.

Hello,

The complete list of devices which supports WRT 1.1 is available here. There should not be big issues on those 3rd ed. FP2 devices, since they use the same browser as N97 (BrowserNG/7.1). Only thing that you must take into account is to enable navigation without touch (tabbed or cursor navigation mode).

I would say that you can forget 3.1 devices as they don't support platform services. So Location service API is not available. Of course you could use API Bridge, but it is up to you to decide if it is worth of the extra work.


One way to play sounds is to use simple embed-object

//HTML
<button onclick="playSound('piano.wav')">Play Sound</button>
<div id="sounds"></div>

//JavaScript
function playSound(soundUrl) {
   var sc = document.getElementById("sounds");
   
   var sound = document.createElement("embed");
   sound.setAttribute("src", soundUrl);
   sound.setAttribute("hidden","true");
   sound.setAttribute("autostart", "true");
   sound.setAttribute("loop", "false");
   sc.appendChild(sound);    
}

Br,
Ilkka - FN

[isalento]

At least there is a typo in button onclick attribute.
It says onclick="playsound()" and in JS side you have playSound()

-Ilkka

[rajanmr]

At least there is a typo in button onclick attribute.
It says onclick="playsound()" and in JS side you have playSound()

-Ilkka

Thanks or pointing the error, but still I am unable play the audio file.

Should i update the info.plist file by including the audio file there?

I read from the Media management api that .wav is not supported, So i tried with a mp3 file. When I play it in the simulator a mp3 file gets downloaded instead of being played.