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| Tags: blind user, clix, hello, player accessibility, user interface, x20 |
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May 2nd, 2007, 12:55 PM
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Which player can be used by a blind person?
Hello,
I am blind and thus need to find an MP3 player which I can use without looking at its screen. I need an MP3 player which has FM radio, supports audible formats, and ideally has a user replaceable battery; and most important is easy to use blind. I have been recommended the iriver clix or the iriver X20. Can those of you who use these players please let me know if they are usable without looking at their screens. This means.... 1. the controls should be easy to find by touch 2. It should be easy to get from anywhere to a known state. Thus if you are on the first item of a menu and you press menu up you should stay on that first item and not wrap to the last item. If menus do not wrap then you can get to a known state by pressing menu up say ten times and then be assured you will definitely be on the first menu item. 3. The documentation should use words rather than icons to describe the menus and controls. I can then learn the key sequences to do what I need to do. So are the clix and the X20 easy to use blind? FYI I currently have an iriver H320 which is easy to use blind but does not support audible formats. I also have a Creative Muvo V200 which does support audible formats but is hard to use blind as the menus wrap. the only way I can use the Muvo is to remove the battery to get it back to its state which was saved at the last time I powered it off. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell hopewell@hopewell.or g.uk     
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May 2nd, 2007, 01:11 PM
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I would have thought the best recommendation, as you already have a H320, would be to try installing Rockbox on it.
It would be worth it for a normal user, I suspect in your case especially so. Rockbox supports more formats than the standard iRiver installation (I'm not sure exactly what you mean by audible formats though?), but more importantly it has the ability to use voice files to audibly read out the selected menu options. For more info about setting these voice files up see here
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May 2nd, 2007, 01:14 PM
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Audible is an audio-book format, which unfortunately isn't supported by Rockbox.
I would suggest trying Rockbox though - the voice feature was designed for blind users and basically reads menus out using text-to-speech (I think it might even read out file and folder names). Not really helpful in finding you a player, but it can enhance your H320!
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May 3rd, 2007, 04:21 AM
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Hello,
Many thanks for your replies. I actually already use rockbox on my H320 and it is excellent. It uses prerecorded speech clips to voice the Rockbox menu options, and you can run a program called Voicebox on your PC which uses the speech synthesizer on your PC to genrate speech clips to voice the folder and file names of the files on the H320. These speech clips get loaded onto the H320 and rockbox then voices them as you browse the folders and files on the H320. Alas though rockbox does not support the audible formats for audible books from www.audible.com, and is thus not the answer to my player needs.
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