Does this mean you cannot use the device without a PC? It will not speak 
menus when you want to choose the songs, etc. on the device itself?


Sincerely,

Lauren
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible
>
> If Itunes is accessible now, which Ipod is accessible as well?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lauren
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