[access-uk] Re: yet more Sky Talker info
- From: Mark Magennis <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:18:47 +0100
Damon
I doubt that the Sky Talker allows you to record but not play back. Those are
functions of the Sky box and the Talker shouldn't change the functions of the
Sky box at all. All it does is speak out whatever the Sky box sends it. Because
the Sky box doesn't send everything, it speaks some things and not others. So
it speaks the record button press but doesn't speak the buttons that you have
to press to get to the recorded items and play them back. So the problem's not
that it won't let you play back, it's that it won't tell you how to play it
back. If you knew the sequence of button presses on the remote control that
would play back the last recorded programme, I can't see why it wouldn't work.
You just wouldn't know it was working until the playback started and you
wouldn't be able to guess how to do it if someone didn't tell you the sequence.
I agree that the lack of spoken output of the playback controls renders the
record feature pretty useless, but it would probably be extra work to get the
Talker to avoid speaking out the name of the record button when it is pressed.
The Talker is probably a very simple device that just speaks whatever is in the
data stream the Sky box spits out to it. The record button press is one of
those things. To get the Talker to avoid speaking out things that aren't
helpful would require some software that would analyse the data stream, pick
out the bits that aren't helpful and suppress the text to speech for just those
items. Could be tricky. Certainly far trickier than just speaking everything
that comes along.
I'm fascinated by your revelation that they have been developing and testing
this for 6 years. That's a long time! It's possible that this device may have
seemed better 6 years ago when people maybe expected less and when Sky boxes
couldn't pause, record and play back. But the menus, EPG and red button were
already around six years ago, so I imagine it still would have seemed pretty
poor not to have access to them then.
Mark
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