[access-uk] Re: ANOTHER BOOKWORM QUESTION
- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:23:22 -0000
Hi Steve and all,
Can't be more specific about uploading difficulties I'm afraid as it was
stuff picked up on the rumour mill some time ago. I was merely testing
the water to see if people had shared experience. Thanks for the info
about adaptors. Also I'd be very interested to hear other worm users'
experience of the onboard translator. For me, accuracy was no the only
issue. There was also the question of speed of translation. Cipher did
this almost instantaneously while the Worm's own translator massively
extended the upload time.
Cheers now.
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Nutt
Sent: 17 January 2005 08:10
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: ANOTHER BOOKWORM QUESTION
Hi Ian,
Certainly there are Serial to USB adapters. They are
all over the place and nothing special, and they work with the Bookworm,
or at least my Xercom one does.
I can't answer the question about Cipher, but have you
tried the Worm's own translator recently? The programmer, Wolfgang
Hubert, is working very hard on UK Braille, and I think he has about a
95 percent accuracy rate now, and getting better.
Finally, as a UK distributor of The Worm, I am not
familiar with problems with the software not sending files to it. Care
to elaborate?
Finally, don't forget to download the latest version
from Handy Tech. There are quite frequent releases of the software now.
HTH
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 16 January 2005 20:39
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] ANOTHER BOOKWORM QUESTION
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me whether there exist such things as
serial to USB adapters? If there are such things, would I need to be
careful about the sort of USB connector to be sure that my PC would be
able to send texts to my worm? Is anyone else doing things this way?
It'd be really nice not to have to faff about in the back of the PC
plugging the worm up to the serial port. Also, does anyone know whether
there are issues with using Cipher with XP home as this is the
translation program I have. finally, I'd heard hat there'd been
problems with the new BW software either failing to send material or
sending it as gobbledegook to the worm.
Cheers now.
Ian
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