[real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts
- From: Glenn <glennervin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:28:16 -0500
I don't want emotion in the books I read, that is more for a parent reading
to a child.
I wish to determine my own emotions when reading.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 10:26 AM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts
Agreed. There is nothing to replace a real human voice with emotion.
Synthesized voices are much better than they used to be, but they can't
convey emotion at all. The real kicker for me is that synthesized voices
don't engage me to the same depth as a human voice. Put another way, my
ability to read actively is severely trammeled.
-----Original Message-----
From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andrea Breier
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 9:48 AM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts
Not me. I will never give up library books I have the plex talk and feel
that it is totally worth the money and space
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:01 AM, "Kimberly A. Morrow, PhD"
<morrowka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> My feeling is that my needs are outgrowing what the Victor can offer. I'm
also into saving space these days, and I tend to favor simply using an iPod
Touch for everything: recording voice memos, reading Bookshare books with
read2go, and reading newspapers and magazines with NFB Newsline's iPhone
app. Between using only an iPhone and iPod Touch and either a collapsible
dog bowl for the guide dog or a mini-cane when I'm traveling dogless, I'm
able to carry a very small handbag for the first time in my entire life.
I'll sacrifice a bit of convenience for the savings on space.
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> Kimberly
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Beach
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:54 AM
> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts
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> There are actually four players in the same market: The Victor Reader
Stream, the Plex Talk Pocket, the Book Sense, and the Book Port Plus. For
the most part, they offer the same basic features. The Book Sense
recognizes more formats than the others, but the Pocket and Book Port do a
better job of recording. The Stream uses its own recording format which has
to be converted if you want to use it on any other device. The Book Sense,
Pocket, and Book Port can record in WAV or MP3 format, but the Book Port and
Pocket can also convert to DAISY.
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> All four players can play NLS, Learning Ally, and Bookshare books. The
reading voices on the Pocket, Stream and Book Port are the same, but the
reading voices on the Book Sense are different. On the Book Sense, the
reading and navigation voices are the same, but the other three players use
different voices for the navigation than they use for reading.
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> I have all four players and to me, they all have a feature or two I like
and a feature or two I do not like. If I'm going to listen to a Bookshare
book, I use the Book Sense because I like the TTS voice on it better. There
were some issues with the earlier release of the firmware that made reading
Bookshare books a bit of a hassle, but the later releases have fixed those
problems.
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> If I want to record something, I use the Pocket or the Book Port. I
definitely do not use the stream for that.
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> HTH.
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> Robert Lee Beach
> Assistive Technology Specialist
> Kansas City Kansas Community College
> 7250 State Avenue
> Kansas City, KS 66112
> 913-288-7671
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margaret Condy
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 3:37 PM
> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts
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> Why do you wish you had gone for the PlexTalk instead of the BookSense?
> I have a BookSense and I'm not thrilled with it, but I thought that the
Victor Stream was its direct competitor, not the PlexTalk.
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> Margaret, who reads all these postings but almost never comments.
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> On 30-Jun-2012 12:16 PM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
>> Did the BookSense and wish I had gone for the PlexTalk.
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>> I've looked at the Book Share stuff. Does have a lot of good reads
>> there, but don't want to mess with the membership/subscription fees.
>> Translated, that means there are still unpossessed Mozart recordings
>> with my name on them. And I prefer human readers whenever possible.
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