[bookport] Re: memos
- From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:27:45 -0400
Marlaina, have you been monitoring this list lately? Have you any idea of
the number of postings there have been concerning the poor quality of memos
and requests for the reasons behind the poor quality? To be frank with you,
I rarely use this feature, less because of its poor quality than for my
preoccupation with the BookPort's other excellent features.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:07 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: memos
> I guess I'm unclear as to why anybody would think that a device designed
to
> quote read books to us unquote, or a device on which one listens to crisp
> clean clear music or audible books, should even have a memo recording
> feature. In my opinion, rather than improving something that has nothing
to
> do with the mission of BookPort, it should just go away or be user
disabled.
> I'd be sad if APH spent time and resources improving on this feature.
>
> Marlaina Lieberg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 5:41 AM
> Subject: [bookport] memos
>
>
> > While just about everyone, including myself, agrees about the excellence
> of
> > the BookPort as it now stands, assuredly one of the most useful devices
> > released in recent years, we also concur, as do a p h people, that the
> voice
> > quality of memos is less than poor. From what one gathers from Larry,
> Robert
> > and Pamela, we are to be saddled with this problem, no matter future
> > improvements in software. This suggests that the sampling rate can only
be
> > changed if the mother board is accordingly revised, not an altogether
> > appealing prospect for those of us who already have units. I suspect
that
> > this unusually low rate was determined to save space on what was, then,
> > expensive flash cards. Given price drops for flash cards, most of us
well
> > beyond 64mb now, I suggest that a p h see to it that appropriate changes
> to
> > the hardware be made, preserving other features, so that memos are
> > intelligible in any place but a quiet room. Nearly every digital memory
> unit
> > sold, low-cost or more expensive, allows for varying sample rate, the
> better
> > quality the speech, the greater amount of memory. We could very easily
> have
> > good quality memory in the BookPort with now minimal cost to us in terms
> of
> > memory. A question. Why are the people at a p h so firmly committed to
> what
> > all of us recognize as a very week link in an otherwise very impressive
> > chain?
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerry
> > jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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