Is it NLS capable yet?  Thought they were waiting for that capability.  This
would take it out of the running if one was going to use it for nls books.

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On Behalf Of Joy Tilton
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:51 PM
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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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