Hi James,
I feel the same about Klango, it is pretty rubbish. No accounting for
taste
I suppose. Klango is kind of based on a cut down version of System
Access,
only System Access works <Smile>.
As for Speakon, I have never seen a need for it really. Winamp and
iTunes
meet my needs.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
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Of
James Scholes
Sent: Friday 30 January 2009 18:28
To: Isaac Porat
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Announcement - New SpeakOn features release 30
January 2009
Hi,
I wonder why you wrote the following:
"making it ideal for use with netbooks"
Netbooks these days are as powerful as low and middle end laptops, or
even
high-end laptops if you upgrade some components like the RAM. People
still
seem to be stuck in 2008 when netbooks had 256 MB of RAM and a 4 GB hard
drive.
Also, a note about SpeakOn, let me know if anyone uses it successfully,
its
always been painfully slow for me and pretty much useless compared to
Winamp, Foobar2000, or especially Klango.
-----Original Message-----
Sent by Isaac Porat on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 05:23 AM
Hello All,
A new features release of SpeakOn 2.1, 30 January 2009 is now available.
In this version, the user interface has been simplified and improved.
New
features have been added for playing your music. You can now quickly and
easily play folders, combine a number of folders and individual files for
immediate play in your own playlists which can be easily edited. The
media
library is now expandable and podcast support has been improved.
For those who are new to SpeakOn, it is a self-voicing software
environment
for finding, retrieving and playing audio and text media. All media
local
to your computer or remote on the internet is presented in the same
simple
tree-like structure. You can navigate to the media you want, select it
and
it is automatically downloaded or streamed and played in the same SpeakOn
player which handles both audio and text. Common audio formats are
supported including MP3, WMA and Real. You can either operate SpeakOn
using
a standard keyboard or an external low cost numerical keypad using one
hand
from the comfort of your armchair. SpeakOn has a low footprint (the
installer is only 3.7 Mb) making it ideal for use with Netbooks.
SpeakOn is available free from:
www.a-technic.net/speakon.htm
This page contains information about SpeakOn, links to the download page,
manual and mailing list.
In the simplified user interface both Player and Library controls have
been
combined in one task. User interaction involves mainly operating these
two
controls with a minimum number of keys, tabbing between these control as
necessary. All operations are also available from the menu - useful for
newbies. The function keys are used to adjust audio and speech as well
as
getting context sensitive (new) media information and help.
For an overview and comparison between Windows and the SpeakOn user
interface see:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-r-0101.htm
The 'What's new' page is at:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-r-0079.htm
Instructions for upgrading from an older version are at:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-r-0103.htm
The download page for new users is at:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-r-0016.htm
If you experience slow download, this is probably because of demand for
this
new version so you may like to try again in a day or so.
The manual is at:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn.htm
The new context media information keys are explained here:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-s-0009.htm
The new music features are explained here:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-s-0012.htm
Improvements in podcast support are explained here:
http://www.a-technic.net/SpeakOn/docs/SpeakOn/ht/SpeakOn-s-0013.htm
Enjoy - and if you like SpeakOn, please forward this announcement to any
mailing lists, blogs or bulletin boards you feel are relevant.
Regards,
Isaac
Isaac Porat
SpeakOn's author
email: speakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.a-technic.net/speakon.htm
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