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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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		<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>Slashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Slashdot, Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal. &#8220;The Author&#8217;s Guild claims that the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that &#8220;They don&#8217;t have the right to read a book out loud,&#8221; said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. &#8220;That&#8217;s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.&#8221; Forget for a moment that text-to-speech doesn&#8217;t copy an existing work. And forget the odd notion that the artificial enunciation of plain text is equivalent to a person&#8217;s nuanced and emotive reading. The Guild&#8217;s claim is that even to read out loud is a production akin to an illegal copy, or a public performance.&#8221; why is there such a conflict between accessibility and copyright? It seems to me the lot of accessibility issues are a side effect of copyright protection. Digital rights management, (DRM), as always impeded the flow of accessible information. The Library of Congress has thousands of volumes of text in audio format, but does not release it digitally because of fears of copyright infringement. Publishers are afraid of accessible electronic books in open formats, such as PDF, for the same reason. The music industry seems ready to abandon DRM. Apple&#8217;s iTunes has begun [...]]]></description>
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