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["James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try the Pulse Mp3 Player from www.blindsoftware.com for $15.  All 
self-contained, with variable speed, but no pitch compensation.

James
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: daisy software players & mp3 files


> Further to Yusuf's post, a webpage containing lots of useful info on 
> software and hardware DAISY players is at:
>
> http://www.daisy.org/tools/playback.asp#Wave
>
> HTH.
> Ray
>
> Personal emails:  Email me at
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "yusuf"
>
> |I think that the Plextalk recording software can speed up the playback of
> | MP3 files. Its a self voicing application which takes a bit of getting 
> used
> | to.
> | Yusuf
> | ----- Original Message ----- 
> | From: "Stephen Green"
>
> |
> | > now that Calibre are starting to send out talking books in MP3 format, 
> I
> | > wonder if anyone can direct me towards a software player that will 
> speed
> | > up
> | > the speech to about twice the rate.
> | >
> | > I have ez reader from dolphin, but it will only work with daisy books, 
> not
> | > MP3's.
> | >
> | > so is there a software player out there which will play MP3 files at 
> twice
> | > normal speed?
> | >
> | > however, before you all reply saying that you can get a plugin for 
> winamp
> | > which will do this, I ought to tell you that I use winamp constantly, 
> and
> | > in
> | > order to stop it interfering with the music, I've set jaws verbosity 
> to
> | > almost zero, and it's really a job adjusting the verbosity levels back 
> ,
> | > just so I can listen to the odd talking book.
> | >
> | > I'm sure that veteran jaws users will be appalled at this, but rather 
> than
> | > upset my settings, I would rather first look for an alternative 
> solution.
> | >
> | > most daisy software players have the facility to speed up the speech, 
> but
> | > as
> | > far as I know, none will read straight MP3 files.
> | >
> | > any ideas anyone?
> | >
> | > steve Green
> | >
>
>
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