You said a few things which don't agree with my understanding. The only iPod's currently supported by Rockbox are "Apple: 1st through 5.5th generation iPod, iPod Mini and 1st generation iPod Nano (not the Shuffle, 2nd/3rd gen Nano, Classic or Touch)." Of course, other brands of MP3 players are supported by Rockbox, and you can find the list at the rockbox.org site.
The way the speech works on rockbox, is that you use a utility on your PC to create voice tags. This uses the speech synthesizer to create voice clips for letters, numbers, menu options, file names and directory names. It's my understanding that this is almost identical to what you get with the new iPod Nano and iTunes 8. Finally, I don't think an iPod shows up as harddrive when you plug it into the USB port. I don't have an iPod myself, so I can't check for sure. I think you need to purchase another utility, like Anapod Explorer to get this feature. Steve Matzura wrote: > I can't answer your question, but just to set you straight on > something, iPods and iTunes have both been accessible for years. Ever > heard of Rockbox? It's a free piece of software that you install onto > your iPod, almost like installing a program onto your computer. All > menus are accessible, and files and folders of content are spelled > rather than spoken in whole words because the iPod itself, not being a > real computer, isn't capable of running the kind of software required > for text to speech applications. OK, so how does Rockbox speak the > menus? A very old but proven technology called stored vocabulary, > where phonetic portions of words are strung together to make whole > words and phrases. You can load music onto an iPod by plugging in to > a USB port on your computer and it appears as just another disk drive, > or you can use iTunes together with a snazzy set of JAWS scripts from > Brian Hartgen/T&T Consulting, or you can wait for JAWS version 10 to > come out and use their supplied scripts with the just- or > soon-to-be-released iTunes version 8. > > Hope this helps. > > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:22:59 -0700, you wrote: > > >> Hello listers, >> I recently have been hearing about the new talking ipod and Itunes 8. Ware >> and how can I purchase these two items? I haden't gotten interested in >> either of these because they were not accessible. But now that they are, I >> want to findout every thing there is to knowabout them. Thanks >> Michael >> >> 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] > > > -- Christopher [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]
