*but can it read menu items?* =]

Believe it or not that was going to be my next request... But It seems to me that screen-scraping menus and playlist names isn't all that appealing of an option, so we might have to start thinking along the lines of a player app modification where it sends out a little notify messages to the serial port, which Hijack could then intercept. Which means we'd have to wait for the next release of the software. I thought about possibly having the kernel keep track of what menu item it "thinks" you're on, but that's way too error-prone. Mark is usually pretty inventive when it comes to how the kernel can snoop in on what the player is doing, so maybe he has some better ideas...

Incidentally, the wheels for this TTS thing have been turning for quite some time... It's not like all this work was done in a week.