[bookport] Re: Off topic program to read brf files on the computer

  • From: "Tim Snyder" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:20:04 -0500

Hi Walt,
The Pac Mate has the translation software built into the FS Edit program. If I had the know how, I would write a program that functioned as a brf reader just like the acrobat reader reads the pdf files. Someone might say that you couold copy and paste them to another file, but you can do that with the more expensive translation programs. The program I would design, if I could, would be just for reading files, not for creating files. Perhaps a way to take notes would be nice. 
Tim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:57 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Off topic program to read brf files on the computer



Without some kind of translator, you can't do it. One of the few
computer-like devices I know of that allows direct reading of .brf files as 
if they were plain text is the PAC Mate, although there very likely are
others.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Snyder" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Off topic program to read brf files on the computer 


Hi Group,

I am looking for a simple way to read brf files on the computer using a
screen reader with a voice synthesizer.  I know that openbook and possibly
Duxbury can enable one to read brf files with voice, but I am looking for a 
program that costs $30 or less.  I am not interested in producing a
back-translated file into a txt file, I just want the computer to speak
English when I open a brf file rather than speaking the ascii code.  I do
not think the NFB translation program will do that.  Does anyone have an
answer for me?  Thanks in advance.
Tim

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