Audio in menus

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white_haired_uncle
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Audio in menus

Post by white_haired_uncle »

This is more of a (questionable) suggestion than a wish. Honestly, I'd probably turn it off myself. But I found it an interesting thought.

You can place a file called folder.jpg to be used as the icon for folders in Video Gallery, which is nice. But why not theme.ogg as well (with setting for number of repeat(s))? Why an image icon, but not the audio equivalent?

When I realized this could be useful for the visually impaired, I thought why stop there. I don't know the state of text to speech tech, but it seems like if it worked pretty reasonably, there's no reason (says the guy who won't be writing the code) to stop there. Of course, a few menu items might need to change like s/Watch Recordings/Play Recordings/. [Hmm, I wonder if this part is already implemented elsewhere so that it applies to all apps, and adding audio to menus in myth would just be redundant -- seems like it should be].

Could make for some interesting themes. Donald Duck, Sam Kinnison, Christopher Walken, HAL...
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