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		<title>Accessing Audiobook Speed on iPhone 3.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new iPhone update has moved the audio book playback speed controls. In the earlier versions, these controls were hidden away in the Music panel of the Settings App. This was terribly unintuitive as I noted in this post, Variable Speed Playback on the iPhone. Whenever I shared my iPod Touch with my wife, I would inevitably get a call about how to fix the speed. Now, Apple has redesigned the scrubber panel that drops down from the top when you tap on the music playback screen. In addition to the slide bar that allows you to more accurately move a particular spot in a song or book chapter, there are trhee new buttons. From Apple&#8217;s Podcast and Audiobook Controls page From the Now Playing screen, tap the cover. The email, 30-second repeat, and playback speed controls appear along with the scrubber bar. You can see elapsed time, remaining time, and the episode or chapter number. The quick rewind button and the playback speed controls are long overdo improvements. I love the quick rewind on my TiVo and have missed that capability on the iPod Touch. I am often interrupted when listening to books, especially when out walking the dogs, [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new Kindle 2, and add the ability to have all menu choices spoken with voice prompts, so that all blind and sighted individuals may purchase, and make full use of this innovative product. Amazon could really extend the text-to-speech function with variable speed playback. The Kindle could also use an audio interface for the profoundly blind. The scalable font size could have larger options. I, for one, would appreciage an inberted colors scheme with light font on a darck background. Some of these features would be easier than others for Amazon to implement. But they won&#8217;t implement any without understanding the need. Help them. Sign the petition. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Kindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationBookshelf AccessKindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s BlogRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechCOAT Petition: Access to Technology Legislation]]></description>
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		<title>Read it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times, along with every other news source, is reporting on the new version of Amazon&#8217;s e-book reader, the Kindle.Buried among all the other changes is one important accessibility feature: text-to-speech. According to the Times: Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or personal document can be read aloud,” Mr. Bezos said. Users can switch between reading text and hearing it read by a fairly computerized voice. “It’s very easy to go back and forth between reading and listening,” Mr. Bezos said I have tested out the first version, as my wife has the Kindle 1.0. With its adjustable font size set to the maximum, I can read the text fairly easily with my low vision reading glasses. I look forward to testing out the new text-to-speech feature when I find someone with the new version. The new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech offers two voices, male and female, and does not offer variable speed playback. I really like the variable spped playback on the iPod, though I wish it had more than three settings. We will have to wait on reviews of the reading quality, but Nuance, who provides the Kindle&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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