I must have wasted a lot of money and time on this project. My son is blind, and I really wanted to give him a talking iPod.
I got a 30Gb iPod (5G), and used the RockBox Utility for automated installment. Everything worked but installing talk files (were "path to encoder" came as error no matter what path I´d choose).
It starts ok, and plays the .ogg files I put on it. It reads menus, HOWEVER NOT menus under Database - which really are the ones which matter.
Using VoiceBox I put appropriate talk files so that it will read directories (folders) and title names under the "Files" menu - however the automated voice generated by VoiceBox makes it next to impossible for my son to understand what is actually being said for each song file.
It feels exhausting - if voice talk for menus under "Databases" actually worked we´d be home free.
I see others have had similar problems - it looks to me to be a bug - I truly hope some developer could look into this!
(And, trying to report it as a bug, I never managed to login, maybe because I haven´t received an email with a new password?)