[icon-discuss] Re: New product management

  • From: "Marta Rodriguez" <yerbabruja1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:19:47 -0400

I heard a demonstration of one of the Ivona voices when Mr. Corona was interviewed by one of the gentlemen from BlindBargains.com at the CSun convention. The particular voice that was sampled sounded like one of the voices in my Victor Reader Stream, which actually doesn't sound so human. I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful, and I do understand the reason that LevelStar and APH can no longer use the Eloquence speech engine, but if the voices of Ivona are like the ones I have on my reader stream, then I would respectfully observe that the voice quality may not necessarily be less mechanical. This doesn't diminish the improvements that Orion would bring to the PDA market, like the ability to use it in conjunction with regular Android aps, not to mention the ability to use it without having to go through stressful and time consuming processes of learning to work with touch screens. But if we want an accessible PDA to be more or less cost effective, we might have to wait on those more human sounding speech engines.


Marta
Marta
Marta




----- Original Message ----- From: "Levelstar Support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:01 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: New product management


Means the Orion voice will sound almost like a human, not like a robot.


Guido D. Corona
Levelstar LLC.
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of david
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:52 PM
To: brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx; happytrails@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
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Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: New product management

what do you mean it will not have A mecanical voyce so are people going to
use it then On Tue, 24 May 2011
08:12:32 -0700, Brandon Keith (Biggs) wrote:


Yep, so the new device will be coming out end of July beginning of August
and the price should be below $3100, probably somewhere between 1400 and
3000.
And this new product is expected to "take the blind world by storm!" :D
It will have an Android platform, which means any programmer who works for
Google could essentially write Aps for the Orion, although I think Android
is a pretty simple language compared to Python, so more people will be able
to program aps for it.
It should be about as long as 1.5 Braille+es and thinner.
And it will have all the capabilities of the Braille plus, plus some!
The only things a switch-over user will have to deal with is not having a
mechanical voice on the Orion and the long size. (And based on its name it
will be red!)
These are conclusions based off of Levelstar's tendencies and info that has
already been given on the Orion.
Thank you,

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From: "Snow Bunny" <happytrails@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:56 AM
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [icon-discuss] New product management

Hi, this is to address listers' complaints regarding Levelstar's policy of
not sharing features and price points prior to Orion's release.  This is
to be expected! Mainstream companies do the same. Also, as Guido stated,
a 5 year lifespan is almost unheard of these days for computer tech,
hardware and software.  Think how different Windows 7 is from XP and I
have already heard general rumblings about Windows 8.  I suggest that we
use our energy constructively on this list, anticipating and excitedly
awaiting Orion.  Beth

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