[bookport] Re: New Book Port Transfer Beta with Audio Speed Up

  • From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:41:26 -0400

Yes, test 7 will do the trick.


>>> paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Friday, July 09, 2004 2:49:25 PM >>>
Hi, Larry. Which firmware beta is this one? I think I have seven.
At 7/9/2004, you wrote:
>There is a new beta available.  If you already downloaded a beta, you =
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>get notified when you start Book Port Transfer.  If you have not been =
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>testing and you wish to try this out, you must have the beta firmware, =
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>too.  The beta firmware is at www.aph.org/beta/bpfw_beta.exe and the new =
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>software is at www.aph.org/beta/bp_beta.exe.
>
>
>Here are the details about this new revision of the software:
>
>If the Send Audio Files as Music option is not checked, the Options =
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>offers some advanced functionality that let you alter the speed of the =
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>audio file's playback.  These functions are accessed with the Audio =3D
>Options button.
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>Audio Options
>
>Experienced audio listeners will quickly desire a means of speeding up =
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>playback of spoken word audio content.  Since there is not a way to =3D
>perform this speedup with commands on the Book Port device, the transfer =
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>software offers a method of using your PC to perform the speedup then =3D
>sends that reduced file to the device.  There are two settings you can =
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>to both reduce the size of an audio file and make the listening experience=
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>less time-consuming.
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>The audio compression settings currently work with all audio files except =
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>those from audible.com.
>
>Time Compression
>The Compress Time checkbox determines whether or not Book Port Transfer =
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>attempts to alter your file to make listening faster.  If this control is =
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>checked, the Advanced Audio Options dialog contains a Time Compression =
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>Speed edit box where you may enter a number between 1 and 3 to specify =
how =3D
>fast the playback speed should occur.  The values you enter in this =3D
>control dictate the aggressiveness of the software's time compression =3D
>routines.  Using a value of 1.5, for example, makes the resulting file =
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>flay at a 50% increase in the rate of speech.  The number 2 specifies =3D
>double the rate, and 3 specifies a rate three times normal.
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>Compress Pauses
>
>The pause compression features of the transfer software provide a =3D
>convenient means of reducing the amount of space between sentences, =3D
>sections, and other divisions in the audio.  If the Compress Pauses =3D
>checkbox is checked, the software eliminates a percentage of any pause it =
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>finds that is longer than a minimum pause length that you specify.
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>The Compress By edit box lets you type a percentage value the software =
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>uses to reduce pause lengths.  If you entered 50 in this box, the =
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>reduces the length of each pause it finds by 50 percent.
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>The Ignore Pauses Less Than control lets you enter a value in milliseconds=
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>the software uses as a minimum pause length.  If any pause the program =
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>finds is less than this length, the software ignores that pause.
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>Previewing the Effects of Compression
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>Once you have set advanced audio options, you may wish to preview the =
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>before sending it to the device.  The Preview window plays the file with =
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>the new time compression settings.  Unfortunately, the preview window =
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>not currently offer a means of testing the pause compression setting.=3D20=






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