[bcab] Re: Speak on: What a pity!

Hi Alan

Have been using speakOn for ages, and well worth keeping going with it.
Isaac's provided a lot of help. Press f1whereever you are and see. 

The volume controls are f5 to soften speech and f6 to make it louder. You
can alter the master volume with f7 and f8. Just try and you'll hear the
difference.


Works with the different voices.


Tom 

-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of alan rayner
Sent: 31 January 2009 12:11
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: Speak on: What a pity!

Hello Isaac
I am one of those newbies you mentioned.  I have had speak on for some time,
but never got to grips with it.  I am determined to get it going this time,
but I am having difficulties with the default voice volume settings.  Can
you tell me how to increase the volume in a few keystrokes, and will it work
with other voices like realspeak daniel which I have.

cheers
Alan Michael Rayner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Isaac Porat" <isaac@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:35 AM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Speak on: What a pity!


> Hi Dave
>
> I am glad it now works OK for you.
>
> As to your other suggestions...
>
> In the RadioTime, the collection is of streams for the same station so for
> example if you play BBC you get two streams WMA and REAL.  Sometimes you
> will find that one stream does not work very well for some reason 
> (internet
> traffic, problem with the source) so you can switch between streams (same
> content Up and Down arrow). As far as I am aware no other player has this
> facility and this takes advantage of the dynamic performance tuning by 
> which
> RadioTime presents the reference to the stations.
>
> If you look at the Radio entry in the VI Services application, you will 
> find
> ACB Radio.  There the collection is the various stations (different in
> content) offerings of ACB radio which work a bit like you suggest.
>
> One thing that many people sometimes miss is that that say if you are in 
> the
> library, you can navigate quickly with the first letter of the alphabet so
> for 'My preset' in Radio Time:
>
> Press tab to go to the Library. Press Right and then the letter m you are 
> on
> the presets.  Then press the first letter of the station you want to play.
> Not immediate but pretty efficient.
>
> The other thing about this version is that I addressed some of your 
> previous
> comments (some months ago) about Podcasts:
>
> For Podcast files:
> You can simply include the folder where your podcast catcher puts the 
> files
> (in exactly the same way as you include folders for music) and then use 
> the
> SpeakOn player with its superior ability to skip within files stored on 
> your
> computer and the ability to come back to where you left off (even if you
> went to listen to another podcast and came back to it later).
>
> With regards to podcasts streamming.
> You  will know that all the BBC, public radio and many other thousands of
> podcasts feeds - not as many as on iTunes but iTunes only puts there 
> podcast
> for a fee so you will find in SpeakOn some others, which will last 
> somebody
> a life time.
> You will also know that you can add any of these to your favourites to
> easily find them when you want.
> Menu > File > Add to favourites
>
> Anyway you can now put a URL of a podcast which is not found in the 
> SpeakOn
> library into the equivalent of an Edit box (no need to edit a text file
> anymore).  Similaarly you can copy the URL from the library to put into a
> download catcher of your choice or if you prefer into another player.
>
> You can still not navigate in a stream; most people don't care but I agree
> that this will be useful perhaps in the next version.  One thing to keep 
> in
> mind is that most servers do not support streamming of MP3 from a 
> particular
> point in the file (BBC listen again is different in that it is in the Real
> format which supports this).
> So what these players are effectively doing is downloading the podcast 
> which
> is kept in a buffer - not pure streamming but you may argue who cares, it 
> is
> useful.
>
> So Rome was not built in a day; still plenty to do.
>
> Regards
> Isaac
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of Dave Taylor
> Sent: 31 January 2009 10:17
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] Re: Speak on: What a pity!
>
> Isaac,
>
> That's why I didn't find it, you have to press enter on a folder! I'm 
> sorry,
> I think I may well have to give it 10 out of 10 in that case! After what
> you've just said, I can see my CD's never seeing the light of day again 
> once
> they are digitised!
> Does
> It would be even stronger if you could do the same thing from an 
> individual
> track, and if it worked from internet directories too, so you could go
> straight from one preset to the next in Radio Time, for instance that way
> too!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of Isaac Porat
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:31 AM
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] Re: Speak on: What a pity!
>
> Hi Dave
>
> Oh 9.5 that's not bad I hope I got that when I was learning English 
> <smile>
>
> You can do all these things as follows:
>
> If you play a playlist (file extensions such as '.m3u' 'pls' and 'wpl' 
> just
> press the Up and Down arrow keys to go to a next or previous track.
> (Press the Right and Left arrows will take you between navigation units so
> you can skip also 5 Minutes, 1 minute 15 seconds and 5 seconds - the same
> applies to all files audio or text stored on your computer such as 
> podcasts
> or plain text Depending on the media it will remember where you left off 
> and
> you can make as many bookmarks as you like (this is disabled deliberately 
> in
> Music as people told me that they want to always go back to the top of 
> their
> playlist - you can shuffle, sort  the tracks, disable speech see under the
> 'Play' sub-menu.
> The same principle (navigating the collection )applies to all collections;
> article in a newspapers, podcasts episodes in a feed, Daisy books etc.
>
> You don't have to have playlists to listen to your music anymore.  When 
> you
> navigate the SpeakOn library in the Music category you will hear 
> 'playable'
> directory.  Just press Enter on it; all the tracks under this folder
> (directory) and sub folders are grouped automatically into a temporary
> playlist (which you can save later if you wish).  Simply move between 
> tracks
> using the Up and Down arrow keys - simple I think.
>
> The tracks (or any item in the collection) will advance automatically when
> one item finishes (track in the case of music).
>
> So everything you raised is there;  did I addressed your comments?
> Will you give SpeakOn now 10 out of 10?
>
> Regards
> Isaac
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of Dave Taylor
> Sent: 30 January 2009 21:12
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] Speak on: What a pity!
>
> Hi, well, I must say, I give this about 9.5 out of 10! The pity is I can't
> quite give it 10 out of 10. There still isn't a single keystroke I can 
> find
> for next track, previous track, etc, and you still can't get it to
> automatically play the next thing in your collection! The same principle
> would be brilliant throught the program, not just in media centre! Seems
> like an easy thing to implement too! Still, at least I can use it to play
> music again now, I just think I'll stick to Itunes for now!
>
> Well done on the update though
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
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