iPod Nano Talking Menus - Demonstration

By Ricky Buchanan • September 26, 2008

David Niemeijer of AssistiveWare has put together some videos demonstrating the “Spoken Menus” facility in the new iPod Nanos and uploaded them to YouTube. The visuals in these videos show the screen of the iPod as David navigates around, so if you are vision impaired and interested in how the Spoken Menus sound these will still be of use to you.

This one demonstrates an iPod Nano set to use the English language and the Infovox iVox British male voice “Peter”:

This one demonstrates an iPod Nano set to use the French language and the Infovox iVox French male voice “Bruno”:

- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

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Tags: ipod nano, ipod spoken menu, spoken menus

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

2 Comments For “iPod Nano Talking Menus - Demonstration”

Joe Barnick Sep 29th, 2008 at 6:13 am

Awesome! Now all they need to do is address switch accessibility…

Joe Barnick´s most recent blog post: Rainbow Web
Ricky Buchanan Sep 30th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

@Joe: We can keep hoping…

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