[bookport] Re: It Was A Fun Experiment, But...
- From: "Reed Poynter" <Reed.Poynter@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:16:37 -0700
Who's VW Kate?
Reed
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On Behalf Of Crabb, Nolan
Sent: 2006/04/05 06:41
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] It Was A Fun Experiment, But...
Well, I've given the new send audio feature a good workout, and I've decided
that it has a place among those who truly hate the DoubleTalk speech. I'm
not one of those, so it's back to the old, tried and true way of reading
braille and text for me.
I found, in using VW Kate, that my book would be significantly truncated--to
the tune of say 10 to 12 percent of the book getting lopped off. Nothing
worse than being right near the suspenseful ending of the book only to have
the Book Port solemnly announce, "End of (title)."
I knew that book was no way over...it just couldn't end the way it was
ending! So I re-transferred it using the regular non-audio method, and sure
enough, I got the end and all was well--both with the characters in the book
and consequently with me. :-)
So I suspect I have a setting somewhere that's causing VW Kate to
maliciously truncate my books. Otherwise, she did a nice job. There were
no artifacts that I could hear in the MP3 encoding, and the ability to pick
the speed before the transfer is, of course, a must-have. The volume of the
recording was excellent, and the frequency response was nice across the
board as far as I'm concerned. The S sounds indeed sounded like S rather
than F and so forth. It was a lot of fun to read that way, and if I can
figure out how to end that truncation thing, I might try it again someday.
But I use DoubleTalk at work and at home on my PCs in both locations, so I'm
enough of a fan that going back to it for text files really makes sense.
Again, please don't misinterpret this as criticism. I can see how the
ability to pick other voices to read text has its place among many, many
users. I just won't be one of them. I don't currently have a heart
condition, but I could get one awfully quick if my mysteries were always
truncated right at the critical section!
Best Regards,
Nolan
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