Hello Everyone, I am cross-posting this to both the Mac and iPhone mailing lists for reasons that I hope members of both will understand. If not, then, I hope you will appreciate the mystery. (Smile)
CHAPTER 1: As my iPhone 3GS is my primary means of communicating with the outside world, VoiceOver is the synthesizer I use the most. As we all know, the lovely Samantha is the US English voice/personality. Unlike many I have talked to, I really adore her and for quite a while have been searching for a way to bring her to my MacBook Pro. The search has not gone well. CHAPTER 2: I exercise 5 days out of the week. I run between 6 to 7 miles during each session. Until recently, I was moderately satisfied with an off-the-shelf MP3 player, used to listen to either music or podcasts during my runs. It had always been my intention to purchase RockBox but, as I do not own a compatible device, the purchase had been placed on the virtual shelf, to coin a phrase. CHAPTER 3: Three days ago, I stopped in at one of my local Apple stores. While there, I decided to purchase a 16GB Black 5th Generation iPod Nanno. Upon attaching the Nanno to my Windows iTunes PC, I discovered that I could generate the menu and items voice from any of my computer system's installed voices. As I have both ZoomText and Jaws installed on the computer in question, I have a wide variety of high quality SAPI 5 voices from which to choose. I was almost ready to make a selection when I discovered that there is an option to generate the Nanno's spoken menu and items synthesizer using VoiceOver. Generating spoken menus and items using VoiceOver via a Windows computer????? Yep!!! You heard me right. Ever the Curious George, I selected this option. Imagine my delight to discover that after iTunes and the Nanno danced the Technology Tango, I found that my old love, Samantha, is the synthesized voice on my new Nanno. CHAPTER 4: So, instead of purchasing both a new MP3 player and a copy of RockBox, I will now use my new Nanno, graced with the presence of my beloved Samantha, to, as the saying should have gone, "Run west, young man, run west." Oh! And for those of you who may be wondering why I simply don't use my iPhone 3GS as an MP3 player during my runs? It's because I can more easily protect the Nanno against sweat and damage. Also, I prefer to conserve as much battery power on my 3GS as possible. The End Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
