Rob Owens wrote: > You're the second person to recommend Rockbox to me this week. I guess > I'll have to try it out. The voice menus feature sounds very useful. > > I forgot to mention two other features I like about the Clip+. It is > small, and it has real buttons. I can actually operate it while wearing > gloves. But with voice menus I guess I wouldn't have to.
I meant that it speaks the menu items. You don't need to be able to see the display but can listen to it read the menu items and track titles to you as they are selected. This is especially nice when I have the player in my coat pocket or when in bright sun because you don't need to be able to see the display to operate it. But you still have to be able to push the buttons. It doesn't have any form of speech recognition. I don't think I would like that very much. Me muttering into the microphone. That would be annoying to both me and everyone around me. Creating the voice files for new audio tracks is still very clunky. I don't know how people without a visual sense would be able to do it. Definitely room for improvement there. I mostly use my player for podcasts and so am constantly moving new files through the queue and always need to generate new "talk" files for track titles. I wouldn't rate the buttons as being great for use with gloves. They are low profile and hard for me to feel through gloves. They are okay. Also relatively closely spaced as you might expect from a small player. But they are real buttons and I haven't had a button failure yet. The plastic clip is fragile and easily broken. I have two players and one now has a broken clip from a drop but I still use it. Bob
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