Firmware updates, dictionaries, fonts and third-party software for M92

[Klastes]

Originally Posted by tomaschavez00

smihaila, i have a question: the artatech firmware... how does it work the ivona thing (im a spanish speaker and since there are no clues of the acappella software from booxtor im thinkin of switchin to artatech)

Ivona is the best tts software in the world (now bought by amazon).
In artatech soft I've used polish, german and english ivona - almost natural human voice.
Additional voices for m92 you can buy:
https://booxsource.com/Ivona-c271681...egoryId=271681

[smihaila]

Kool. Any hope for an Ivona Romanian voice package (Carmen)?
I know it exists - contacted the folks @ Ivona and it's available at least for windows platforms. But they couldn't tell anything about the Linux/Artatech platform (hinted that they are selling their package to Artatech in the form of a business SDK / API).

[vvilmos]

Originally Posted by smihaila

Kool. Any hope for an Ivona Romanian voice package (Carmen)?
I know it exists - contacted the folks @ Ivona and it's available at least for windows platforms. But they couldn't tell anything about the Linux/Artatech platform (hinted that they are selling their package to Artatech in the form of a business SDK / API).

Ivona Carmen is available (free for the moment, being beta) for Android,
so hopefully soon for M92 (or at least M96).
I used it on a tablet and it's quite nice. Unfortunately many romanian texts are typed without diacritics and the pronunciation is awful in this case.

[smihaila]

Originally Posted by vvilmos

Ivona Carmen is available (free for the moment, being beta) for Android,
so hopefully soon for M92 (or at least M96).
I used it on a tablet and it's quite nice. Unfortunately many romanian texts are typed without diacritics and the pronunciation is awful in this case.

Yes, I forgot to mention that Ivona Carmen is (freely) available for Android - being part of the beta program. It's very interesting that the names of the binary files seem to follow the same naming convention as in the Linux/Onyx platform (i.e. libvoice_ro_carmen.so)

Would the Android binaries be compatible with the plain/Linux version?
Android is a Linux flavour after all, and the hardware platform is the same (ARM).

The Carmen voice sounds awesome - based on what I was able to try via Ivona's web demo.

Thank you for your feedback on this.

[laborkim]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

Try to update using MFG Tool: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...50_UPDATER.rar
Instruction is inside of archiv. Don't forget to backup your content - MFG tools installation formates the internal memory, so everything will be deleted.

Hi, Booxtor!
Maybe, your son grew up to a Man now.
I have a stupid question.
The updatefile 'UPD 20131204.ZIP' can be applied to the M92 black edition,
and how about to the M92 black 'pearl' edition?

[fakir]

Website with the newest firmware is not working. Could someone share it with me via e-mail/dropbox etc?

[laborkim]

Originally Posted by fakir

Website with the newest firmware is not working. Could someone share it with me via e-mail/dropbox etc?

Hi, fakir! Go to the Page 1 of 111 and You can find the updatefile presented by booxtor.

[edmond]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

Third party software

A simple file manager for the Onyx Boox (also for M92)

On my Boox M92 it works just fine.
It is mainly for picking the firmware.
Warning: Tweaking the firmware without a clear understanding of what is done, can lead to dire consequences.


With that tool you can also replace standard screen saver pictures in \usr\share\system_manager\images

Here you can pick some ready to use images from my collection http://www.flickr.com/photos/booxtor

New screen_saver images must be renamed to screen_saver0.png, screen_saver1.png, screen_saver2.png, ..., screen_saver9.png. (no more than 10 images at once). May be it works with more than 10 pictures, but I did not figure out how.

Hi all,

I would like to change my screen saver images on my M92 and I would like to know if the procedure reported here is still valid with the latest firmware (i.e., 2013.12.04).

If this is the case, installation should proceed as follows:

1. copy the otfm dir to the root of the sd card;
2. inside this dir, click install_sys_progs.oar;
3. restart the reader.

Right?

TIA

[Mono]

I think, it works. But, you should copy otfm dir to the root of internal flash memory (where you copy books, etc.) Maybe that SD card also works...

And it works with more than 10 pictures. I have several dozens. Just continue with ...10.png ...

[edmond]

Mono, I thank you for your reply but if I am not sure that it will work I will not dare to install it...

It would be nice to have a reply from Boxtor, who developed the firmware, but I understand that he is too busy.

[Randy11]

Hi Edmond,

I've unziped OTFM in my SD and install it. There is no problem whith this tool.

[edmond]

Eventually, I installed otfm: it works.

Just to fix my previous post, I had to click install.oar, not install_sys_progs.oar.

One more question (not related to otfm): on the M92 I experience the same problem that I have on the C65 AG, i.e. accented letters in file names are wrongly displayed. For example, "città" is displayed as "cittÃ".
Is there a way to fix this?

[Manolo]

Perhaps changing font family

[edmond]

I tried all the font families: it is the first thing I tried (and the only, I must say, because I can't see anything else I could do).
There is no change: the point is that you have a choice on the font, but not on the encoding (and neither the dimension).

The question is completely different when you read an ebook: there you can choose the font (and a lot more, with respect to system fonts), encoding and dimension. Epubs are displayed correctly.

[PremaEbooks]

@edmon
Do you have the correct language in settings?
It works properly on my M92 in Spanish, no matter which font I choose...