Hi! THanks Eden for letting us know that. Then there will not be any trek in this house. I rather use my Nokia 8 or moto g 5 for such purpose or my stream 2 for listening to daisy books unless it doesn’t turn of by it self without any warning like it use to do for me when i have wifi on. /A
> 9 nov. 2017 kl. 21:10 skrev Aidan <aidan.smartt...@gmail.com>: > > Yes, the button thing is great, but unfortunetly they did not change > enough hardware. The stream hardware is quite bad, and all they done > now is to change the procesor and remove the line in jac to make room > for the gps antenna. > They are lazy these days, come out with just a few updates once every > now and then, and then they brag on the fact that they have different > teams to work on different products wich are suppose to create the > impression that they have enough people to make it possible to work on > these things properly. > They also now will include an fm radio, wich is great, but then > stream users is missing out, and its now unfairely expected that if > you don't want gps you should buy this thing to get blootooth, and the > fm radio. This probibly means that the treck will get more updates and > the other stream little or nothing and then they will suddenly > discontinue the stream for a new one later. They did the same before > with the older stream. After they discontinued it, they did not > provide updates for it to bring it inline with the new model, such as > to add the consolidate notes and repeat one track only features on the > notes and music bookshelfs respectively. All about money and they > don't care. > Its nice that this unit will have maps onboard, wich means no data > drain, but so little hardware change is unexceptible. > > On 09/11/2017, Peter Scanlon <sca...@tpg.com.au> wrote: >> The good thing about Victor is it has real buttons. No need for voice >> command. >> I agree doing voice command in public can be a problem. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary >> Otten >> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 1:33 AM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Subject: Re: Humanwear Victor Reader Stream Trek >> >> VoiceCommands as an adjunct to an existing device could be good, although I >> really can’t imagine using one out in public with GPS or or on a bus or >> whatever. That’s why say it should be an adjunct if they did it. But doesn’t >> the stream run on Linux? My guess is there aren’t any APIs that would let >> them use, for instants, Alexa. For my money, with the exception of doing >> things on the actual device, his voice assistance are vastly overrated. More >> often than not, you get something that makes you look on the web for what >> they found, or you get a non-response. We are definitely not in the Star >> Trek days, so the fact that human where hasn’t come out with something >> actually like a home or an echo makes perfect sense to me. If they just came >> out with one of the speaker things, nobody would buy it. Why would you want >> to buy a specialized speaker made by humanware, when the mainstream ones are >> after all voice activated. What possible value add it could there be? That’s >> why I say having some kind of voice deal that would actually let you use >> your device with voice under the right circumstances could be good. >> >> Mary >> >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> So another new product from humanware but again I think they're missing so >>> many points as Humanware tend to do these days in my opinion. >>> >>> Yeah okay, we know about Talking Book players and we've used them for >>> years. >>> >>> Yeah, we know about GPS navigation products and we use iPhones and other >>> similar devices. >>> >>> So it does surprise me that Humanware hasn't brought out a voice activated >>> device like the Google Home or Amazon Echo that does all this sort of >>> stuff. >>> >>> Anyway here's the new device from our dear friends at Humanware so make >>> what you will of this. >>> >>> http://store.humanware.com/heu/victor-reader-trek-talking-book-player-gps.html >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ********** >>> "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" >>> ********** >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >
