You can test the VoiceView feature without installing the VoiceView update. When plugging in a cheap generic (99-cent) USB sound dongle, my PW3 announces (in text and speech) that it cannot find the voice files, and that I should download them from amazon.com. And of course, I can now play music on my PW3, even without the voice files. Though it complains about missing files every time I plug in my USB sound device, so I will install the voice files just to make it shut up.