Ebook + Ipod Shuffle, Split them & Speak Out File Number

[chrisleeuk]

I use textaloud mainly for listening to e-books on my ipod shuffle.

Just a thought, would it be possible to add a short sentence to the start of each file when splitting?

For example it would be nice when I split an e-book into 20 parts for the start of the file to contain something like this:

<voice required="name = Mike16">Sherlock Holmes Part 2.<voice required="name = Crystal16">REST OF EBOOK FILE etc.

This will make the Voice change to Mike to read the e-book Title and Part number out, then the ebook continues in the Crystal Voice.

The reason I ask for this is that the shuffle does not have a display, so it would be nice to know which part I am up to 'vocally'

I've written my own little utility to do this for now, but obviously it would be nice if this was integrated into TextAloud itself.

Anyway just a quick thought.

[Jim Bretti]

Thanks for passing along the suggestion, sounds like this would be useful for devices that don't have displays. We'll add it to our list of enhancements.

[jnuttallphd]

Hello Jim:
Thanks for considering announcing files for an enhancement. With my low vision I am unable to read the screen on MP3 players. So I figure I might as well buy an iPod shuffle since I don't have to worry about a screen anyway. But I am looking for easy way to identify the files that I am reading