Jonathan, I guess you're talking about VoiceBox. I looked at it when I first started using Rockbox, but thought it was too difficult to get going at the time. Maybe I should take another look.
Gary King [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:57 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > Hi Gary, There is software downloadable from the Rockbox site that does > exactly what the software for the nano is doing. IE, it scans the MP3 > player > for files, uses your default speech synthesiser to make recordings of the > albums, folders and file names, and puts those recordings with a special > file extension onto the Rockbox-enabled player. I know, as I've used it > regularly. The only time Rockbox will spell the files out is if you don't > use this utility. > > That said, you can't play Audible or protected iTunes content on Rockbox. > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Gary King > Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:27 p.m. > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible > > Jonathan, > > I probably won't be buying a new iPod Nano since I have an N82 with plenty > of storage and several other players including my old iRiver H120 with > Rockbox, but I'm glad that Apple finally produced an iPod we can use > without > > any modification. It's also nice that the voice tagging of menus and > songs > is done automatically by iTunes once the feature is activated in the > software. Rockbox is nice also, but there's no automated way of voice > tagging songs, and we have to settle for the titles being spelled instead > of > > spoken. > > Gary King > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:37 PM > Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > > >> Hi Stephen, I have not played with one so am going based on what I've >> read, >> but it appears that what happens is that when your nano is connected to >> your >> PC or Mac, a scan is made for all albums and songs on your nano. Using >> your >> default system voice, say RealSpeak Daniel in SAPI 5 as an example, files >> are generated for every artist, song and album. These are then copied to >> your Nano so that as you move through the menus, albums and tracks, you >> can >> hear what these tracks are. So this is quite different from having real >> text >> to speech on the device itself, and emulates what the guys at Rockbox >> gave >> us quite some time ago, but is still commendable nonetheless. >> >> Jonathan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Stephen Guerra >> Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 8:18 a.m. >> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' >> Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible >> >> Jonathan, so, when you have the new Nano hooked up to your pc, it feeds >> off >> the TTS you are running and loads it on to the Nano, or am I way off. >> >> Does the Nano require you to install software to have speech? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen >> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:56 PM >> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' >> Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible >> >> Alex and all, the new iPod Nanos are sort of accessible but do not use >> text >> to speech. They use the technique Rockbox has used for around 5 years, >> where >> they use your default system voice on your PC/Mac to create files that >> live >> on the nano to announce menus, albums and songs. >> >> In terms of iTunes in Windows, iTunes 8 has implemented extensive use of >> Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). Because of this, JAWS will be able >> to >> work well out of the box with iTunes once we enable MSAA support for >> iTunes >> in the next public beta of JAWS 10. I have just been testing this today >> and >> am able to use the iTunes Music Store, the Radio feature and many others. >> Apple have done a good job here. >> >> Jonathan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Alex Stone >> Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 6:53 a.m. >> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' >> Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible >> >> Lauren, According to the Apple website the latest IPod is accessible, but >> I >> haven't seen one, so I don't know. >> Cheers >> Alex >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Lauren >> Sent: 10 September 2008 19:11 >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible >> >> If Itunes is accessible now, which Ipod is accessible as well? >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Lauren >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:33 AM >> Subject: Itunes 8 now accessible >> >> >>> Subject line says it all, both for Windows and Mac. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dane Trethowan >>> From Melton Victoria Australia >>> mailto:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> phone (+61 3) 9005 8589 >>> Fax (+61 3) 9743 7954 >>> Mobile/SMS (+61 418) 773 532 >>> MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> skype callto:grtdane12 >>> >>> ****************************** >>> >>> >>> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >>> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >>> http://www.pc-audio.org >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
