[access-uk] Re: Pure radios

  • From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:07:00 -0000

You can set Ivox to 'stations only'.

Iain.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:56 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios


Hi Mandy,  I'm pretty certain that the speech options are either enabled or 
disabled.  You can't be selective about what it tells you.

Cheers now.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Mandy Palmer
Sent: 04 January 2006 12:55
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios

Hi there, agree with that totally.  I also bought myself a sonus for 
Christmas and am very happy with it but like you it would be nice to keep up 
with the technology that sighted people can do, so it would be nice to have 
the play back feature and it certainly is a good idea to tell Pure how good 
we think the product is.  I just have one small beef.  Is there any way of 
turning the speech on the handle off without interfering with any of the 
other speech facilities.  I find it very sensitive and find that it tells 
you the time or the alarm setting with barely a touch and it is a bit 
annoying sometimes.  My husband has sorted it out a bit by putting tape 
around the handle to stop it being so sensitive to touch, but if there is a 
way of turning it off, that would be great.

Mandy

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
Ian Macrae
Sent: 04 January 2006 11:34
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios


Here here, Adrian, and write and tell them how good it is too.  For once a 
commercial company has made a genuine response to a demand from a section of 
the market and personally I think they should get all the encouragement we 
can give them for having done so.  After all, we're rightly quick enough to 
tell them when they get it wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 January 2006 11:29
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios

I bought myself a sonus for christmas and am extremely inpressed so much so 
I'll more than likely buy another for downstairs later in the year.  I found 
it online for £95 including delivery so you can get it for less than the 
£120RRP which RNIB charge without having to register with tapesense. I got 
mine within 48 hours of ordering.  I'd urge anyone considering getting a DAB 
radio to go for the Sonus to proove to Pure that there is a demand and then 
they might eventually be able to commercially justify extending the ivox 
technology in to other models.



Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility and inclusion adviser
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Internal extension #2287
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ -----Original
Message-----
From: Ian Macrae [mailto:ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 January 2006 09:16
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios

Hi Graham,

The latest news from Pure is disappointing.  They have no plans to extend 
the iVox speech into other of their products because, they say, it's 
performance in terms of sales has been, in their terms disappointing. This 
is sad, not least because the most recent addition to their catalogue is a 
personal DAB/FM receiver with much the same functionality as The Bug kitchen 
model. So you can rewind, pause and record DAB to an SD card.  But it's 
display is extremely VI unfriendly and it relies more heavily than other 
models on menus.
Having said this, in my experience across the board, once you've mastered 
the principle of DAB sets, it's pretty easy to apply it.

Cheers now.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Graham smith
Sent: 03 January 2006 22:16
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Pure radios

Hi

I have a talking pure radio. Very nice radio)

I now wish to purchase another but with the FM tuner built in.  As far as I 
can see pure do not make a talking one with this option.

Do any of you use a non talking FM one and is it fairly easy to use with no 
sight.

Regards

Graham


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