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		<title>Variable Speed Playback on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[alvin and the chipmunks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Updated for iPhone 3.0 @ Accessing Audiobook Speed on iPhone 3.0] Speeding up a recording used to make it sound like Alvin &#38; the Chipmunks. Growing up, I had a cassette player for the blind that had a variable speed playback control. Being a kid, I used it mainly for entertainment value. Fun was had with friends making the narrators sound silly. Slide the bar up to get the fast, high-pitched tones of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Slide it down and you get slow, sonorous speech. I never used the cassette player much. It was more of a novelty. My sight was still good enough to read books without glasses even though I had to do it close up and with lots of eye strain and headaches. Those days are long over. Now I rely much more on audio books. I have never learned to get along well with the cassette players designed for the blind. Instead, I listen mostly to books that I get from audible.com. In the early days, I listen to these books on a variety of MP3 players. At some point, though, I settled on and have stuck with Apple&#8217;s iPods. I had an early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPod Shuffle has VoiceOver: Any Good for Audiobooks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably heard, this week Apple released its new Shiffie.  The key new accessibility feature is VoiceOver. Introducing VoiceOver. Musically speaking, the new iPod shuffle is brilliant, thanks to an exciting new feature called VoiceOver. Say you’re listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you as the music dips down. It even announces the names of your playlists. And when your battery needs charging, VoiceOver tells you that, too. Practically speaking, you press a button on the headphone cord to prompt the iPod to talk to you. Different cues will give you title and artist or battery level or playlist information. All very useful and all very overdue. Between last year&#8217;s nano and this month&#8217;s Shuffle, Apple is well on its way to bringing an audio interface to its mobile devices. Before recommending this to all the visually impaired music lovers out there, I have one concern that I have not seen addressed in the reviews so far. My primary reason for my iPod is to listen to books. Many visually impaired users  offer audiobooks as a main reason for having iPods and other MP3 [...]]]></description>
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