[nabs-l] Ipod and itunes

[T. Joseph Carter]

To take a little wind out of the sails, the new talking iPods 
literally just use the host computer's built-in text to speech 
engines to record small AAC files of the computer saying the name of 
the song.  RockBox did the same thing, but it's not built-in speech.  
It's really just a new feature of iTunes for these specific iPod 
versions.

Joseph

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:27:18AM -0400, sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca wrote:
> I don't know if you knew this, but they now have a talking ipod shuffle! 
> It's so cool - it says aloud the song title, if you want, or the playlist 
> titles as you navigate through them. Pretty awesome if you ask me. 
> They're expensive though ($100 CAD or I think $80 US) but might be worth 
> it if you planned on buying one anyway.
>
> I don't own an ipod, and though I have itunes I don't use it to its full 
> capacity so couldn't comment specifically on its accessibility. Good luck 
> with it though.
> Sarah
>
>
> Quoting Amy Sabo <amylsabo at comcast.net>:
>
>> hello ashely and all,
>>
>> to answer your questions about the ipod and the itunes here it is   
>> along with my opinion on it too! the ipod in my mind isn't  accessible 
>> at all and before jfw 10 came along the software wasn't  accessible at 
>> all. but, i could be wrong on it since i haven't gone  to it since the 
>> release of jfw 10 and played around with it myself.
>>
>> i would recommend if i were you to use a accessible mp3 player like   
>> the victor stream to listen to your music. it's soooo accessible in   
>> putting music onto the player. for putting the music onto the player  
>> the songs need to be in mp3 format and itunes doesn't support music  in 
>> that format.
>>
>> so, that's my forte and 2 cents worth on this topic. but, i'm sure   
>> that others on this list will be happy to chime in with their   
>> comments and suggestion for this topic. take care and i will talk to  
>> you all soon!
>>
>>
>>
>> hugs,
>> from amy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: Ashley Bramlett
>>
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
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>> Sent: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:01:13 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Ipod and itunes
>>
>>
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> We all like music of some kind.  What accessible Ipods are ut there?   
>> I know the Ipod shuffle is usable because it has tactile buttons  and 
>> no visual display.  Is itunes accessible?  If there are problems  what 
>> are they?
>>
>> I'm going to use itunes to get music and would access it   
>> independently if i can.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ashley
>>
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