[bookport] Re: Latest Beta and File Position
- From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:20:43 -0500
Walt,
Your idea about the book indexing seems plausible except for one thing: The
BP may jump back by several sentences, but then when I stop continuous
reading mode and then use the 3 key to go forward by a sentence (well, not
always a sentence in a DAISY book, but the smallest movement possible),
movement will be by smaller amounts than by the amount the BP jumped back.
Thus, if we use the indexing model, it seems that the BP jumps back by
several index marks during these events. To me, this sounds like some kind
of buffering problem - i.e., how much data is sent to the speech chip at
once and where it can start again. Don't know but it is a little strange.
Is this clear?
-- Pete
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bookport] Re: Latest Beta and File Position
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:28:56 -0500
Peter -
This, in various forms, has been around as long as I've owned a BP and
that's going on eighteen months now. I've determined from experimentation
that it has something to do with the index markers in the book, itself, as
I've had some files where this would only cause a backward skip of perhaps a
sentence and others of the same format where the file would go back over a
page. I haven't actually experimented much with different formats, but I
know that I've seen it in .txt, .brf, and DAISY files. I've become
convinced, though, that it's not so much a BP problem as a file formatting
problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:51 PM
Subject: [bookport] Latest Beta and File Position
Here is a behavior I am seeing in the latest beta which I have not observed
before (or at least not as badly).
1. I am listening to a book ("Catch Me If You Can") which I downloaded
from Bookshare in DAISY format onto my Bookport. Actually, I transferred it
to the Bookport before updating to the BP Transfer beta which I installed
today (Friday).
2. While in continuous reading mode, I will hit one of the keys to
adjust speech rate or volume.
3. The BP suddenly will skip back several sentences and continue
reading from a prior position in the book. Now I know that some stuff
probably gets caught in the buffer, but I've been surprised at how far back
the BP is jumping. I seem to feel that in the past, such a jump would only
occur possibly to the previous sentence. Note, I don't think the jump is to
a previous marking in the DAISY text since, if I stop the BP after the jump,
I can hit the 3 key (while reading is stopped) to advance several sentences
before I am at the position I was before hitting one of the speech rate or
volume keys.
4. I am seeing a similar behavior if I stop reading - i.e., when I
start again I can sometimes be several sentences back from where I had
stopped (not just one sentence).
Just curious if something changed or this is a particular attribute of how
this book was originally marked.
-- Pete
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