[bksvol-discuss] Re: O.T. version 10 Kurzweil
- From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:20:19 -0700
Hi Sarah,
Someone may have answered this but I joined the Kurzweil list on their site.
It looks like it won't be until August sometime before it is released.
Kaitlyn
Level III Practitioner
Reconnective healing and the Reconnection
Level 1 Reiki healing
Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number of
moments that take your breath away:)
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Van
Oosterwijck
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:57 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O.T. version 10 Kurzweil
What list is that. I would definitely like to join. Can you send me
subscription info? I'm on a list that gets that kind of information, but
it gets a lot more unrelated stuff and I just can't handle all the mail.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert tweedy" <rtweedy2@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O.T. version 10 Kurzweil
>I can't go myself but will pass all info along, this came from a list
>created about new products and upgrades.
> For skype contact bobwichitaks
> For msn contact info rt5117@xxxxxxx no emails.
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> From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:25 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O.T. version 10 Kurzweil
>
>
>> Hello Robert,
>>
>> Since I won't be making it to any of the conventions pass along any new
>> info
>> on K1000. I will looking forward to it. :)
>> Have fun!!!!!
>>
>>
>> Kaitlyn
>> Level III Practitioner
>> Reconnective healing and the Reconnection
>> Level 1 Reiki healing
>> Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number
>> of
>> moments that take your breath away:)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert tweedy
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:54 AM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
>>
>> For skype contact bobwichitaks
>> For msn contact info rt5117@xxxxxxx no emails.
>>
>>
>>
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