[bookport] Need help in solving problems with reading recording for the blind books for grad school classes
- From: "Jay Pellis" <jalucard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pmlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <blindcooltech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <exploders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:57:13 -0400
Hello everyone-
I am having some major problems in reading recording for the blind
talking books on cd. I'm a music composition grad student and i
desperately need to start reading a book for my introduction to audio
class. After waiting a few weeks, I finally received the book on cd and
I also ordered the FS reader software from freedom scientific and the
user authorization cd also from rfb. I thought to purchase the FS
reader since you can obtain the pc and pacmate versions both at once and
i figured it would work with jaws pretty well. I installed the software
and called rfb in order to authorize it to play the rfb books. That
went ok. I opened up the book and typed in my pin number and the book
appeared. Jaws navigation worked fine going between the tree view list
of chapters as well as the text window. However there was no text in
the text window, just what appeared to be chapter names and page
numbers. Also, the audio of the book would not play. Now i opened up
the jaws6 basic training and the text appeared fine for that book but
the audio still wouldn't play, also would not play in the fs reader demo
included with jaws6. I tested other demos of daisy book reader software
and they worked fine with the jaws book. I called FS tech support and
we couldn't figure out what to do. The only thing i can think of is to
upgrade to service pack 2 of windows xp but i don't think that would fix
the problem either. I always make sure i have the latest versions of
everything such as windows media player 10 and direct x 9.0c. So I plan
on calling FS later today to see if I may get a refund on the software
since it doesn't appear to work on my system. I also didn't install the
pacmate program either since I was going to wait on that to support rfbd
books if it ever will that is.
I'm not sure what I should do now and I was wondering if anyone had any
opinions? I was talking to my parents about it and they said they'd
help me purchase a new program or piece of hardware to use to read the
books. I was looking at book wizard reader by APH and it seems ok, just
can't seem to read the text of the jaws book with either jaws itself or
one of the MS sapi voices in the text view with the arrow keys or
playback keys. Other then that, it seems like a good program. However
i was thinking with software, i could probably display the text and
audio at the same time but with hardware, i won't be tied down to my pc.
I was perhaps thinking of purchasing bookwizard reader and the bookport
and getting that authorized for rfbd. That device also plays other file
formats which I think would be nice to have, especially audible files
since the audible player won't install on my pacmate. Or do i perhaps
buy a program and one of the portable cd players from the recording for
the blind? I don't know what any of them are like since there don't
appear to be demos. I'd like something that's easy to learn so i won't
have to struggle with it and i could read the book.
I'd like to get this problem solved as quickly as possible so I can
participate fully in class reading. If I can't get a refund on the FS
reader software, I guess i'll just keep it and if i ever get a laptop,
maybe it will work on that. Unfortunately, i don't think rfb would give
me a refund on the fs reader authorization cd.
Thanks for any help or opinions, it would be greatly appreciated. Feel
free to contact me at any of the messenger screen names below, skype and
Yahoo messenger don't work on my universities network but aim and msn
do.
Sincerely
Jay Pellis
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