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Thursday, July 27, 2006

The Talking iPod?

Earlier this month an article in the the Scotsman conjectures that a future version of the iPod will be equipped with a text-to-speech engine. They suggest TTS will be used to inform the user of what's playing when situationally impaired (driving, jogging, low light conditions, etc.). Evidently a recent patent filing with the USPO by Apple back in May has triggered this rumor.

Read the article.

by spkydog @ 3:52:00 PM   Bookmark and Share
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5 Comments:

At 6:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't Know about apple,
But Google has make new move on Accessibility Search,


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Raxit

 
At 6:36 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

No kidding? Tell us more...

 
At 9:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Not kidding....


http://labs.google.com/accessible/


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Raxit

 
At 10:39 AM, Blogger Rich Unger said...

The Rockbox open source mp3 player firmware (rockbox.org) has been way out ahead on accessability features for years. They have blind users who are active contributors.

 
At 6:09 AM, Blogger Sheth Raxit said...

Hmmm...

Checkout www.ipodlinux.org, Linux's port on iPod and they have/tried to port tts/asr etc on iPod,

i have seen Compressed Video clip playing on iPod (which is officially not supported by Apple)




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