[bksvol-discuss] Maternal Instincts by Sarah Hrdy
- From: "Adrienne Asch" <aasch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:54:08 -0400
Maternal Instincts by Sarah Hrdy was accidentally submitted last week.
Unfortunately, it's incomplete -- the last few chapters are missing. So,
whoever downloaded it, don't bother looking too closely at this book. Sorry
about that.
Adrienne Asch
Henry R. Luce Professor in
Biology, Ethics and the Politics of
Human Reproduction
Wellesley College
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481
781-283-3248
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] O.T. version 10 kurzweil
It sounds like kurzweil is listening to their customers. This is not off
topic but just in case there may be some that don't to read this that is why
for the off topic but most of us use kurzweil anyway. The following is from
Kurzweil Educational Systems.
Yesterday's announcement on this list about Version 10 was based on a press
release. Press releases, by their nature, tend to be fairly short, and are
designed for people who don't necessarily know that much about the product.
I'd be happy to provide more details, but I'll only be around today and
tomorrow, since I'm going to be at the summer conventions next week.
As a starter, here is a somewhat more complete list of features. For email
brevity, I'll leave out any lengthy explanation of these changes, but feel
free to ask questions.
(1) Audio DAISY Document Creation. We can now create full-audio DAISY
documents. This works pretty much like creating MP3 or Wave files today.
(2) Table Creation and Editing. You can now create tables in K1000, and
modify their structure as well as their contents. You can also convert
tables to plain text, or plain text to tables.
(3) Table Reading. We've added a lot of new commands to the table reading
feature.
(4) Suspicious Regions. The K1000 can now automatically identify and ignore
suspicious regions - groups of poorly recognized characters that are
clustered together near the edges of pages. You can choose to keep these
recognition results if you wish, or ignore them.
(5) Overhaul of the Poorly Recognized Pages Dialog. You can mark pages as
having been edited, and group the list of poorly recognized pages based on
whether or not they have images, and whether or not they have been edited.
You can select poorly recognized pages based on confidence level or based on
spelling percentages.
(6) Updated OCR Engines. There is a new bug fix release of FineReader -
still officially version 7.0. The ScanSoft engines have been brought up to
version 12.6, which is the same release used in OmniPage 14.
(7) Updated Speech. A new release of VoiceText (or is it called NeoSpeech)
is included.
(8) Alternative Reading Unit. You can now navigate by an alternative
reading unit using ALT+F6, ALT+F7, and ALT+F8.
(9) Better Speech Control for Languages. You can now associate different
voices and different voice characteristics with particular reading
languages, providing better control for multilingual documents.
(10) Emphasis Method. Better control also exists for establishing what
should happen when a voice is to be emphasized. You can use built-in methods
for certain voices, or select a different pitch, or a different voice.
(11) Proof Reading. You can listen to a word with full punctuation and
capitalization reporting by pressing Control+Alt+Right arrow, or, to go
backwards, Control+Alt+Left arrow. Add Shift to this combination and you can
hear the detailed reporting while changing the selection at the same time.
(12) Changes to Spell Checking. You can specify a list of prefixes and
suffixes which, if found, will cause the spelling checker to ignore a word.
This is particularly useful to avoid spell checking URLs and email
addresses. Words which are proper names specific to a particular document
are now saved with that document (when its stored in KES format), making it
easier to spell check over multiple sessions.
(13) Combo Boxes. In a number of dialogs, text boxes have been replaced
with combo boxes so that you can easily select choices you have made before.
This is true in Online search, and the Find dialog, for example.
(14) Use of Microsoft Word. If Microsoft Word is installed on your system,
the K1000 will automatically use its functions to convert files so that it
can open and save them properly.
(15) Optional British Dictionary and Speech. For U.S. customers, a separate
CD can be purchased containing RealSpeak Jane, the Oxford Concise
Dictionary, and the Oxford Thesaurus. The dictionary and thesaurus dialogs
allow you to choose between the American Heritage dictionary and the Oxford
Concise dictionary, or between Roget's Thesaurus and the Oxford Thesaurus.
(16) More Online Sites. BookShare.Org New Books is available as a bookshelf
and as a site for a book search. Online Magazines now includes NFB's Voice
of the Diabetic and Future Reflections, as well as the Braille Monitor.
Institutional support was added for BookShare.org, such that user's at
institutions can log in as an institution and member.
(17) Better ScreenReader Support. In general, you'll find that dialog boxes
work better with screen readers. Active speech can be disabled for reading
documents only, if you'd prefer to use refreshable Braille. You can also
open Braille documents without Grade 2 translation, again for use with
Refreshable Braille.
(18) More Verbosity Events. New events are available for reading past the
start of a paragraph, announcing the position of an item in a list,
announcing the position of an item in a treeview, and announcing page
orientation after recognition.
(19) Find Functionality in Dialogs. When working with lists in dialogs, you
can use Control+F to find, F3 to find next, and Shift+F3 to fine previous.
This is true in a number of dialogs, including Ranked Spelling, Find and
Open, Online Search, and the K1000 File Dialogs.
(20) Apply Button. For those dialogs where you might want to keep changes
made for property settings, but not have an action take place that occurs
with the OK button, there are Apply buttons. This is true for a number of
dialogs.
(21) Repeat Last Message. You can use Shift+F2 to repeat the last system
message.
(22) Font Size Hot Key. You can decrease or increase a font size by one
point with Control+Left Bracket, or Control+Right Bracket.
(23) Text DAISY. Our ability to open and save Text DAISY documents has been
sped up considerably.
(24) Recovering Documents. If you choose not to restore a document after a
crash, the working version of that document will be saved in a folder under
your document home called temporary\orphans. You can later browse to that
folder if you change your mind and wish to recover the document.
(25) Emphasis Voice and Audio. Use of emphasis for bolded, italicized, and
underlined text is observed when creating audio files.
(26) NLS Naming Conventions. When you download Braille documents from NLS,
the K1000 will rename them based on their titles.
(27) File->Utilities->Append has been replaced by a more general Merge and
Open facility, which can open and merge any non-image documents.
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