said by Daemon:said by dennismurphy:said by Daemon:the GUI of the Apple TV is useful, and you can wire it up with ethernet.
PAUSE!
How the F will the GUI of the Apple TV be useful
to a blind guy?!?!
voiceover.
I have doubts how useful Voiceover will be for him as he has an encyclopedic knowledge of music (he used to own radio stations). He can decide the artist & album & track in his head without resorting to any prompting. I think that Voiceover will just piss him off with its 'nanny-like' prompting.
Since he's blind (Politically correct it would be 'vision impaired'), speech recognition is preferred. This is why I want to use Siri.
What I really want is an iPad/iPod to be a voice-activated remote control for a Mac-resident iTunes library.
iTunes on iPad ~~Siri~~ Mac--->usb--->DAC--->Preamp
where
~~~ = wireless link
---> = wired link
and where 'Siri' is the end-to-end link back to Apple's speech recognition service
In reality what is required to help make this work is for Apple to let Siri understand about iTunes libraries located anywhere on a LAN (ie. Mac with the library on a NAS/SAN storage).
