Hey, no problem. It happens.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:10 PM
Subject: Info on how to turn on 4G speech in Windows or Mac [was Re: 4g
ipodnano absolutely brilliant]
Sorry for missing the pasted-in documents from Apple about how to turn on
speech for the 4G nano from Windows or the Mac
Hi Pete,
On Sep 12, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Peter Apgar wrote:
Does this speech work if your loading it from a windows system?
Thanks in advance,
Pete
According to the Apple Documents the 4G nano speakable menus will work
for either Mac or Windows. Here's the document on "Enabling Spoken Menus
on Pod nano (4th generation):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2961
There are instructions for both Windows (XP and Vista) and the Mac. The
summary is:
<begin quote>
Summary
iPod nano (4th generation) includes the ability to speak the name of
selected menus in iPod software using the text-to-speech capability built
into or installed into Mac OS X or Windows. These voices should be
SAPI-compliant for Windows or Speech Manager-compliant for Mac OS X.*
<end quote>
I don't what the activation process is like on the Windows side, but it's
even easier than their instructions for the Mac imply, because all those
settings are automatically on when VoiceOver is switched on -- no need to
check any of the boxes, etc. Only thing you need to be aware of is that
the first menu entry on the iPod is to select language. If you just
select (by pressing the center of the scroll wheel) the default entry,
you'll get U.S. English, and the nano will start telling you the top
level menu right away. The top entry is the one where you've run your
finger counterclockwise around the wheel and the clicks have stopped.
(You're probably there to begin with, and won't hear any clicks when you
move counterclockwise). The U.K. English is one click clockwise from
that position according to other posts on the web. That's new for this
iPod model, and I don't know why it would make a difference here.
Cheers,
Esther
-----Original Message-----
On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:18 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
how did you get it so fast?
Was that addressed to me or to Scott? I walked into my local Apple
Store
and asked them whether they had the 4G nanos in yet, and they said they
did.
So I now have Alex reading me the albums, artists, and song titles,
along
with the other menu items. The only thing I regret is not fixing up the
pronunciation of the foreign language titles in the speech menu of
VoiceOver's utility before I did the sync.
One very odd new mode is that you can start shuffle play by shaking the
iPod nano <grin>. I'm not making this up!
Cheers,
Esther
