That would be much appreciated. The tutorials, to me at least, aren't very  clear on that. Of course I understand that we're still in prototype stages so I'm trying not to gripe too much. One also gets the feeling that English wasn't the author's first language which of course isn't their fault.

Thanks. That does seem to have cleared up the issue. It's good to know the tutorials will be updated to reflect this. This at least gives me something to start with. As I said I know it may be a bit premature given the fact that we can't yet get our grubby little paws on Sonuses yet, but I figure it can't hurt to play around with the development environment beforehand and see if it's really my thing. If nothing else I can create my own interpretations of the tutorial games.

Are you accidently trying to put your message in the channel text field I wonder? the channel should be a number and will not like any letters entered into it. I have just tried the TTS action myself and it worked without a problem, so perhaps the instructions are not clear enough.

We need to set the Text into a channel with the Set TTS Channel action and then play that channel using the Play TTS action.

I feel like I need a medium dedicated to helping and talking to developers. this way we can quickly work our way through these issue. And maybe perhaps somewhere people can send me their projects for me to look at so i can help them better.

I appreciate your patience Bryan, its a work in progress but we will get there.

Does the speech include any commas? or special characters that could be removed. when the project is in its built form some special characters can cause parsing issues so I create a data validation function to check for them in the G D E.

Well, I managed to get everything set right and even managed to test it.

Some designs will be presented to me in a week or so. I have a meeting scheduled for that. There will be a usb port, volume wheel, headphone jack, ethernet port and power socket along the back. Rubber membrane buttons, 4 directional and 5 action. Unsure on the placement of pause button at the moment. And battery pack for 6 double A batteries.

wow. An ethernet port? Does that mean support for multiplayer games?

It can definitly handle menus. Ive made plenty myself. There is even a demo called banaza on youtube that demonstrates a character select menu. Saving and loading games have their own actions to make it easy. Simply use the save game action and all your progress is saved. Same for loading.

The sonus can handle 16 audio tracks being played at once. No reason one cant be background music. It my own project I even have a game object that is dedicated to just playing background music and looping it.

The cost is unsure at the moment, i dont have a breakdown of materials and labour/manufacturing cost yet.

Yeah but tethering such a small device to a somewhat heavy in the way cable and being restricted in that way when using a handheld is kinda weird isn't it?
I guess you've already made the build specs up so changing it now would just piss everyone off, but I thought even the tiny little boards like 4 by 3 now had WiFi, I mean considering that cellphones do it makes sense that they would...
If it was only updates than I'd say just do USB connection to the computer or load onto SD but I'm sure you thought of that, however since multiplayer is being made a possibility (appreciated by the way) than an on device connection makes more sense.
Thing is though, unless the WiFi card draws allot of power, even a nano one running on single band AC (I think AC takes less power) than I don't know why it couldn't be put in, aren't they like, the size of your pinky tip now?
It's not like the card has to be turned on all the time, maybe only when connecting to a service that uses it, and you could maybe put a txt on the sd or use some kind of computer program to add the network address, since that wouldn't be doable with the buttons unless you put in some kind of ancient texting style scrolling interface for choosing letters and numbers...
I wouldn't mind paying 10 15 more bucks for that my self.

Yes something like that but with much better audio quality that a gameboy lol. Thanks for the feedback and using the G D E bryan. I've already got a small list of things to address just on your small experience with it alone. If anyone else is playing with it and has questions or feedback I would love to hear from you.

You also raise some good points defender. Alterations can still be made as the end product is not yet finalized and its worth taking more time to make sure its done right. I will look further into the possibility of wifi

Some notes while I was looking at the GDE and tutorials:
When creating a new project, there's a typo. The window says "New Projet?" That should be New Project". Many dialogs have a questionmark in the title. As the title of the window, it doesn't need the questionmark, since the application is asking a question beneath that title.
When adding a new variable, the button to exit that dialog is labeled as cancelled. I think it'd be more user friendly to label it as Close. Cancel seems to imply that you're closing the dialog box and undoing any changes you might've made. If at all possible, it'd also be nice to just tap escape to back out of that variables window.
In the Add Actions Dialog, when selecting Set TTS, one of the prompts that pops up is Speech, while the other one is TTS Channel. It might be more user friendly to label the speech prompt as TTS Message, that way it coincides with TTS Channel.
The online tutorials do need some spell checking. Are there any plans to open up the tutorial documents for community contributions?

The project is looking great, but I do have some questions that I don't know if they were answered somewhere:
1. Is there any content encryption for the game packages?
2. What are the hardware specs slated to be? Would be nice to know how much RAM the game has to load data, etc.
3. I know that 4 of the buttons are set up as a directional array, but how are the remaining five buttons laid out? Is one of them suitably positioned for the archetypal Start button?
4. I forget what kind of batteries you're planning for the Sonus. Is it planned to take standard store shelf batteries, or are you planning a proprietary battery pack?
5. I'm a person who really likes nice looking devices. What is the Sonus slated to look like? Will it have curves and flare, or will it be a minimalist design?
6. What are the maximum audio specs supported, and what formats are we expecting? Will the GDE do a custom compression of content to embed encryption, or will it stick with wav? Ogg? MP3?

Kai

Can’t we use rechargeble batterys insted of double a ones?