according to an article I read at http://www.appleinsider.com the  
voices have to be generated by itunes.
On 13-Mar-09, at 9:37 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:

>
> Hi
> Has anyone found information about exactly how Voiceover on the iPod
> Shuffle works? Does iTunes still generate the speech, or is the
> capability built in to the shuffle itself? The sample voices remind me
> of Babel Technologies diphone voices (the HD voices in Infovox iVox
> for those who have that) though not exactly the same. If the
> accessibility is actually built into the Shuffle itself rather than
> generated by iTunes it would be a nice advancement. But if not, where
> does iTunes get these voices? Are they generated server-side,
> downloaded locally, something else?
>
>
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