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while I’m looking for away to do Text to Speech with my TrixBox I found from voip-info this article [link] I found that Acapela Voices working on text to speech in arabic and they have demo online you can write the words in arabic text and they can pronounce the words by two voices one is female called “salma” and the other is male voice called “yousef” and also it is fun you can find it here [link]

And also Share the Acapela for iPhone experience at Macworld expo (San Francisco, January 6-9)- The Acapela for iPhone SDK is ready to voice empower the applications developed for the Appstore, in 17 languages and a choice of 33 natural voices. Take the opportunity of the Macworld Expo to experience the iPhone talkative experience. Click here to set up a rendez vous. [link]

And also I found one blog talking about that you can talk in english and the other side will hear it in arabic “More On-The Fly Language Translation” you can find it here [link] and it is developed in iraq the real subject is “How to Talk Like an Iraqi” from IraqComm [link] that used for USA soldiers to speech to Iraqi people.

sakhr have also text to speech engine in arabic [link].

I just bought the new ipod touch 32GB and I have list of files mp3s that I’m collecting and archiving with my own db . so I want to search to them through my pc and listen to them through my ipod . so I’m making VB.Net 2008 code to do that for me.

First Step

I need to search in my database and check the file description this is easy for developers (programmers)

Second Step

When I select the mp3 from the list and play it . It will connect to my ipod touch and check for me if the file exist in my ipod or not.

Sln : I will connect to my ipod touch and copy the itunes database which is located “/iTunes_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB” and download it to my pc so I can search where is the file is located easily . In this case I read to project the main is manzana which my project based on it , The second project iphonebrowser which I read it to see the example how I can use the functions in manzana .

Third Step

I will need to read the iTunesDB file which I copied on my pc and extract the information from it .

Sln : So I used on of the project called ipodmediaextractor I used “System.IPod.dll” library so it can extract the data from iTunesDB (its easy) .

Fourth Step

I will need to search in the list I extract it previously from ipodmediaextractor and if the files is there I will use again iphonebrowser functions to get my mp3 and TADA finish .

Finally

you can download my source code from here [link]

PS: I faced some problems when first I used the iphonebrowser

It didn’t work for me. Downloaded n installed the program but when I open the program , a message pop up saying “An error has occurred during load. Error text: AMDeviceNotificationSubscribe failed with error -402653180. The program will now exit, sorry. Please report this online.”

Answer

Make sure you have iTunes installed properly, with the latest (or close to latest version).

hint so you can’t run the project without iTunes installed on the machine .

References

http://code.google.com/p/manzana/
http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/
http://code.google.com/p/ipodmediaextractor/
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=967300
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/mp3id3v1.aspx
http://www.itunessdk.com/blog/itunesdb-library/
http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/ipod-touch-menu-4423.html
http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/50185-post3.html
http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/file/46

I was trying to send sms through hsdpa usb modem using vb.net because I wan to use my ZAIN e-go to go device.

I found this article from codeproject article link [here]

And I also found that some one is trying the same [link]

Re: hyperterminal
well, ive been working on this project for awhile now. im trying to create a program to interact with a hsdpa usb modem to send and recieve sms text messages (it uses a sim card). ive been succesfull in sending sms’s, checking the state of the modem, and getting the phone book using the gsmcomm library but it isnt working for getting the modems inbox messages. so i thought id just try ussing AT commands to get to the inbox but that isnt working either. i wanted to use the hyperterminal to send AT commands to see if its even supported. i assume it has to be, as the software that came from the modem can do it, so why cant it? this project has been super frustrating and if anyone could help id really appreciate it
thanks
jason
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I am using Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. I use Access for my data base

by using the gsmcomm library it was working fine with me but i changed the sim card and put Ezee sim with removing the pin code request and it was working great sending and receiving using my ego to go modem. so know I can make two-way messaging with my own application and server.

The file source code I upgrade it to .Net 2008 you can get it here [link]

I hope some day Kuwait will have this too .

PACI promising to release new smart civil ids with before march you can see it on the news [link]