[bookport] Re: My thoughts on new beta
- From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:14:52 -0400
Paul:
You raise a lot of questions; let me try to address them.
Navigation in files sent as audio files are only indexed at the phrase
detection level. So, you will get better results with synthesizers which
actually pause between sentences; most don't pause very long.
We are not currently attempting to use any navigation from the original
book in these files, so Book Share books will be reduced to navigation
by phrases.
Sending some HTM files hangs Word; they wouldn't go if you sent them as
normal text.
I can't imagine why you would need to press 2 twice to stop as these
are just MP3 files on the device. In other words, there is no
difference, as far as the Book Port is concerned, between one of these
files and any other MP3 file.
The artifacts you are hearing are MP3 encoding artifacts. Removing
those would require a higher bit rate, and thus, much more space on the
flash card.
Rob Meredith
>>> paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx 04/04/06 01:46PM >>>
Hi, everyone. When trying the new send to speech, I found that both
vw
Kate and AT&T crystal had some artifact in the voice. That's probably
due to
the sampling rate.
When pressing two to stop, many times, I had to press it twice. If I
pressed
the stop key once, it would often restart; so I would have to press it
again
to get speech to stop.
Pressing the one and three keys seemed to back up or go forward by a
large
amount. I wondered if these files were indexed. I am currently reading
an
audible book and pressing the one key doesn't move back that far.
Lastly, with vw Kate, reading just seemed to go without any natural
pausing.
Crystal was a bit better, but still, the reading seems to rush onward.
I realize this is a beta; so if we can work some of the kinks out of
this
new feature, I think it will be pretty neat.
It would really be neat if I could load an OPF daisy file and have the
bookmarks preserved in this new mp3 file.
I tried doing an html file and that seemed to lock things up.
Paul Henrichsen
<paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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