Wednesday, March 11, 2009

New iPod Speaks 14 Languages

The new iPod Shuffle has a "Voiceover" feature which can speak song titles and artists names in English, Chinese, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Czech, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Polish, and Swedish.

http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/voiceover.html

Hopefully this will find its way into future versions of OS X (where Voiceover is currently only English, unless you purchase additional 3rd party voices).

2 comments:

Dale Dellinger said...

Neat! Where are the "3rd party voices" available?

Tom Gewecke said...

Cepstral and AssistiveWare are two places.

http://atmac.org/text-to-speech-in-languages-other-than-english/