[access-uk] Re: Sky Talker - a little bit more info

Are you saying it won't work in the tv guide and planner then?

Thats what I use most but my poor Mum has to be the talking menu for me LOL

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Magennis" <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:31 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sky Talker - a little bit more info
I have my doubts about whether the Sky Talker will speak the EPG. I saw a development version of this over two years ago. It could speak only the channel identifier, programme synopsis and now/next info, although even just that would be very useful, so I'm not knocking it. What little information I have gleaned since then leads me to expect that not a lot of progress has been made, mainly due to Sky having been reluctant to exploit this and make a device available commercially. This data has always been available from Sky boxes, in a form that can be converted to speech. As far as I remember, the data output was originally provided for some other engineering or testing purpose (similar to SMS messages) and not intended for text to speech. But the EPG data is in a completely different format, so it would require a completely different method to turn it into speech. Whether they have done that or not yet I don't know, but now they've taken the plunge, perhaps they will extend i 
ts capabilities over time.

Mark


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