Oh the pocket is great as a recorder, but from what I've seen, it's not much
to write home about as a player. I would go with the BookSense. Navigation
is a lot more intuitive than the stream, and you can record in both mp3 and
wave format. I personally also love the fact that I can play files which I
download from iTunes.
Allison
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Tilton" <joyctil...@comcast.net>
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Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: victor Reader Stream V Book Sense
I noticed the Plextalk Pocket has been left out in the discussion at hand.
<smile>
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From: "brandon armstrong" <stunners...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: victor Reader Stream V Book Sense
yeah i agre with you on that point.
I have done several podcasts with my booksense xt and transfered the
files to my macbook and uploaded them to my podcast page.
Brandon
On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I'm very glad to hear it and to be honest, that wouldn't be all that
hard I don't reckon <smile>.
I would like to see some sort of voice database feature in these
devices, some way whereby you could link notes or recordings together,
say link a telephone number with an address or a name, I should think
that such a feature would be handy for elderly people who could use
these type of machines - not just for playing books - but as a type of
information manager for basic information, The Victor Reader for example
uses LINUX as its operating system so there's no question about the
power the player has, its just a question of how to design such a system
I outlined.
brandon armstrong wrote:
booksense transfers are much faster to mac and vise versa.
Brandon
On Dec 23, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi!
Okay, I don't have a Book Sense but I do have a Victor reader Stream.
One thing I like about the Stream is that all prompts and messages are
recorded in human voice rather than having to rely on a software voice
synthesiser so you won't miss any alerts, prompts or errors which
Victor is trying to communicate to you.
I'm also told that there are some major software upgrades for Victor
coming in the near future, one of which will allow you to store your
recordings in a different format such as wave for transfer straight to
a PC or Mac and that's about time too! and this has been my major
gripe about the player from day one - particularly given that I use a
Mac most of the time and there's no way of converting files from the
Victor's format to something standard with the Mac, this should fix
the problem.
The other slight annoyance I have with the Victor Reader Stream is its
incredibly slow rate of transfer using USB cable and I'd be interested
to hear an explanation from Humanware as to why this is, I can only
hope that transfer speeds are faster on the Book Sense. If you're
prepared to be a little adaptive then the problem can of course be
solved by purchasing a memory card reader but make sure you read the
manual first so you know what goes into what folder on the card, how
to arrange things etc.
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