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.
-----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joy Tilton Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:51 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: victor Reader Stream V Book Sense I noticed the Plextalk Pocket has been left out in the discussion at hand. <smile> ----- Original Message ----- From: "brandon armstrong" <stunners...@gmail.com> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> 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. 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