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9to5mac.com - 3/11/2009

iTunes 8.1 to include voice rendering of music titles

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iTunes 8.1 to include voice rendering of music titles

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Just how does Apple’s VoiceOver work?
CrunchGear — ... “Hardcore Girls (Don Rimini Remix)” by The Count and Sinden—the iPod “says” the name and artist. It’s sorta superfluous, yes, but the technology behind it is pretty neat. ...

How the iPod Shuffle VoiceOver Works [Apple]
Gizmodo — As you probably know, the new Apple iPod shuffle can speak up the name of your songs, artists, and playlists. I initially thought it was a new text-to-speech chip. It is not: As you can see in this flowchart, the trick happens in your computer. Apple patented the process a while back, and it's going to implement the mechanism in the next revision of iTunes. iTunes 8.1 will use the text-to-speech capabilities of your computer to generate sound bites, embedding the name of the artist and the song in every tune. This explains why the voices are different depending on the platform you sync your ...

O VoiceOver do novo iPod shuffle está no iPod shuffle?
MacMagazine — A principal novidade do novo iPod shuffle é o seu novo recurso VoiceOver embutido, que “fala” os nomes das músicas, artistas e listas de reprodução (playlists) para o usuário. Bom, dizer que esse recurso é _do iPod shuffle_ não é uma verdade: como não temos nenhum ainda para analisar, experimente pegar a pilha do controle da sua TV (ou do seu mouse) na mão. Consegue pensar num iPod desse tamanho processando informações por meio da tecnologia VoiceOver, que é a principal ramificação de todo o Acesso Universal do Mac OS X? Bom, você nem precisa pensar nisso, já que ...