One advantage the Stream appears to have over the other devices is the
ability to speed up reading in Daisy audio files. This would be a real
boon to me given the speed at which I read text in synthetic speech.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chipmunks
Sent: 17 July 2007 12:48
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: book courier, victor stream, milestone??
With realtime tts, you can really "read", i.e. look at the spelling of
workds, punctuation etc. Maybe this is not important for those who grew
up with audio books but for me, it makes a huge difference. I do not
currently own a portable reading device but for this reason would choose
a Bookport over mp3 players or even the Book Courier as the BP offers
text input and advanced text searching capabilities the other devices do
not have.
hth
Doris
At 12:40 PM 7/17/2007 +0100, you wrote:
>So what advantages does the real time speaking of text files have over
>saving them to mp3 on the pc and then transferring the mp3 files?
>Is it just the convenience of not having to manage the conversion.
>
>
>Adrian Higginbotham
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>From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Sunil
>Sent: 17 July 2007 10:37
>To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [access-uk] Re: book courier, victor stream, milestone??
>
>I use the Book Port because I love being able to use one device to
>listen to Audible content, scanned books and regular mp3 files. Only
>criticism is that is too big. Other than that it's great to be able to
>carry one device that can cope with content in different formats.
>Having said that I use the Zen Stone or a Shuffle sometimes when I know
>I'm not going to want to read anything in .txt format on a journey,
>because both devices are smaller and less uncomfortable in my pocket.
>--------- Original Message --------
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>Subject: [access-uk] Re: book courier, victor stream, milestone??
>Date: 17/07/07 08:25
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>
>Following up on karens run down of what she uses the book courier for
>then:
>For my part I don't have any of these devices, I listen to audible
>books and mp3s on either an ipod shuffle or a zen stone, read documents
>on the PC which I hardly ever do for leisure, I don't currently
>subscribe to TNAUK because I get all the news and up to date
>information I could ever want on the web, mostly via rss feeds, and I
>don't currently use any daisy player. I struggle to think of what
>benefit any of these devices would bring. It would be nice to read news
>away from the PC but as it usually takes longer to identify articles I
>intend to read in full than it does to read them I don't see this
happening any time soon.
>so, what do you listen to on your device, where do you get it from and
>what are the advantages over alternatives such as the PC, zen stone or
>such like.
>what am I missing out on.
>
>Adrian Higginbotham
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Karen Burgess
>Sent: 17 July 2007 00:56
>To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [access-uk] Re: book courier, victor stream, milestone??
>
>yes ray,
>
>i read audible daizy, TNAUK, listne to mp3s and text files on my
>courier, so for me it was worht the money.
>
>kaz
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>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 11:48 PM
>Subject: [access-uk] Re: book courier, victor stream, milestone??
>
>
> > One other thing I didn't mention Karen re. the Currier, is that it
> > does play TNAUK recordings, and to my knowledge - which isn't
> > exhaustive! - it is the only portable player that does.
> >
> > I'd have thought for anyone who's got a Currier, or a Book Port, it
> > is
>
> > questionable as to whether it is worth changing players.
> >
> > I'm a first time buyer in this field, hence my interest.
> >
> > From Ray
> > I can be contacted off-list at:
> > mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf
> > Of Karen Burgess
> > Sent: 16 July 2007 11:30PM
> >
> >
> > hi ray
> >
> > i do have a book courier and use it quite a bit especially when
> > travelling.
> > when reading the info on the stream i just couldnt' see any
> > advantage to what the courier could do which was why i was asking.
> >
> > kaz
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> > From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 11:21 PM
> > Subject: [access-uk] Re: book courier, victor stream, milestone??
> >
> >
> >> Karen, maybe you know all you need to about the Milestone and the
> > Book
> >> Currier, but Brian Hartgen's page at:
> >>
> >> http://www.hartgen.org/portable.html
> >> I did post some info here some time ago about the latest firmware
> >> upgrade for the Milestone which appears to make it a better DAISY
> >> player than it used to be.
> >>
> >> contains a good summary of these players.
> >>
> >> No doubt Brian will be reviewing the Victor Stream soon, but in the
> >> meantime it does strike me that for some the stream's very small
> > size
> >> will be attractive. On the features front it can also speed up
> > DAISY
> >> books like many of the CD players can. It should also support
> > Audible
> >> books in the near future through a firmware upgrade.
> >>
> >> If all this wasn't enough there is also now the Vi-Player joining
> > the
> >> fray, which Calibre seem to have some association with. This will
> >> apparantly be demonstrated in the reading room at Sight
> >>
> >> Cheers,Village.
> >>
> >>
> >> From Ray
> >> I can be contacted off-list at:
> >> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> >> Behalf
> >> Of Karen Burgess
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> >> hi all
> >>
> >> i've been reading with interest the information on the lis about
> >> the new victor stream and find myself very confused. What is the
> >> advantage over this new piece of equipment compared to the book
> >> courier or the milestone?
> >>
> >> tia
> >>
> >> kaz
> >>
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