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["Brian Hartgen" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

First, on this week's Main Menu live, you can hear Gerry Chevalier from 
Humanware and Mike Calvo from Serotek talking about the new upcoming features 
of the Victor Reader Stream, including what is new in the 1.2 release and the 
new ways in which the two companies are partnering with each other.  This 
includes being able to download protected content such as audio described 
movies to your Stream and also the ability to download music from Amazon and 
listen to text.  These are some great features and I love the way they have 
implemented them.  In a moment I will direct you to some audio where you can 
listen to samples, but what I like is the way in which your speech engine, 
pitch and rate preferences are transferred to the Stream when spoken text 
output is necessary such as at the start of an audio described movie, very 
cool.  When listening to the Main Menu live programme, that particular segment 
starts about 73 minutes into the programme.

The link to the Main Menu podcast of the program itself is 

http://www.acbradio.org/archives/RadioReading/mainmenulive/ml20080213.mp3

and the link to take you to the page of audio samples of the Stream in 
partnership with system Access Mobile Network is

http://www.samobile.net/content/cat14790.html

Brian Hartgen