Re: FS Reader Demo
- From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:21:12 -0800
When you install jaws 6.0 on your machine you must use the advanced feature in
order to get the Daisy files transferred onto your FS Reader directory.
A guided install will put the training materials on your machine in MP-3 format
and HTML format so you can read them as text or as mp-3 files using your
favourite audio player but the FS Reader will not access them unless you use
the
advance install feature.
With the FS Reader you will have all the Daisy navigational features. You will
also have speech compression--increasing speech rate without changing the pitch
plus the ability to pause, bookmark, alt-tab out of the program and practice
any
training features you are reviewing. There is some flexibility using winamp for
strictly the MP-3 formats but this is limited and much more awkward than using
the FS Daisy Reader. There is even speech compression in Winamp using the
pacemaker plugin and while this will allow you to increase rate, the pitch is
changed proportionately. The FS Reader is supposed to maintain voice pitch as
speech rate increases but it does a very poor job in this regard and in my
opinion is not really much better than the Winamp pacemaker plugin. Some Daisy
readers such as Victor-soft have a very excellent speech compression feature
that allows you to crank speech up to 4 or 500 words per minute without almost
no noticeable change in pitch.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Marquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:59 PM
Subject: FS Reader Demo
Listers:
I had the impression that FS had included the FS Reader Demo for two reasons:
(1) to market it to JFW users in such a way that having tried it, they would
buy
the full version and (2) to put the tutorial materials, information primarily
of
use to new users, at their fingertips.
It is, therefore, doubly ironic that FS Reader Demo is hard to find, without
any
reference in the JAWS "Help" system, and enabled so that readable books are not
in at least a default directory.
Well, I found FS Reader, but there were no readable books in the default
folder.
There was some material there, but, thank you very much, I would rather have it
in RTF format. All of the Audio Menu options were unavailable.
I thought I read somewhere that the files were on the program CD. So, within
FS
Reader Demo I tried to browse the CD. FS Reader Demo refused to admit that I
have a CD ROM drive, even though that is obviously from where the program had
been installed.
Using Windows Explorer, I'm pretty sure I found the files. I copied them to
program files\ freedom scientific\ Training \ ENU.
FS Reader found nothing.
Two questions:
If FS really wanted to accomplish either of the objectives identified above and
if the team had their collective heads screwed on correctly, wouldn't use of FS
Reader be as easy as falling off a log?
2. Am I so stupid that I have found falling off a log a true challenge to my
computer skills?
Actually, don't answer that second question! <SMILE>
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