[bookport] Re: Need help in solving problems with reading recording for the blind books for grad school classes
- From: "Jay Pellis" <jalucard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:19:22 -0400
Hello everyone-
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions etc. I did manage to get a
refund on the FS reader from freedom scientific and I've decided to
purchase the bookwizard reader to use as software on my pc and the
bookport to use as hardware elsewhere, such as reading my rfb book in
the music building etc. I hope i made the right decision. Since I also
have a pacmate that can read text files and most of my books i read for
pleasure are text files, do i really need a bookport? Lol who knows. I
went ahead and ordered yesterday so i probably shouldn't cancel now.
Besides, I use a triple talk PCI card as my speech synthesiser which has
double talk voices so I am use to the Pete voice. Also, i suppose the
bookport would be nice to have since the audible player won't install on
my pacmate and it doesn't support the 2 rfbd books i found on their
website for my classes. I wish they had the others i require but I
suppose i could try scanning those And who knows if the pacmate will
ever support them anyhow. I guess my peeve is having multiple devices
for doing different things, it sure would be nice to have one product
that can do everything haha, take notes with a braille keyboard which i
prefer over desktop/laptop, have a small braille display, can turn off
the speech so you won't bother people etc, browse the net, play the
gazillion formats of files that are out there etc.
Now i just have to go and get a 4gb flash card. I am looking at
something by sandisk called an ultra 2 compact flash card, model number
SDCFH-4096-901. I think it's the same card i already have for my
pacmate, i hope it is anyway. I guess it would be preferable to have a
card for the pacmate and a separate one for the bookport. My pacmate
card has a little switch on the right side where you can switch between
2 2 gig particians and the full 4 gig partician, i think they do that so
it can work with older devices. Unfortunately sandisk cards seem a
little more expensive then the other brands but i've always found them
to be reliable.
Thanks everyone again and I hope this was a worthwhile decision, I
suppose i will soon see.
Sincerely
Jay Pellis
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-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nancy Stevens
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:03 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Need help in solving problems with reading
recording for the blind books for grad school classes
I have found that the pin and RFB and D key work great with the book
port.
The Double Talk speech is a bit difficult for me to listen to for long
periods, but having the navigation features available is worth it. The
plus
with the FRBD books is that you do here the actual human voice reading
the
text.
You only need the authorization cD once. Then I just have it stored in
case
I need it in the future.
Good luck with your music course.
Nancy
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jay Pellis
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:57 AM
To: pmlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; blindcooltech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
exploders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Need help in solving problems with reading recording
for
the blind books for grad school classes
Hello everyone-
I am having some major problems in reading recording for the blind
talking
books on cd. I'm a music composition grad student and i desperately
need to
start reading a book for my introduction to audio class. After waiting
a
few weeks, I finally received the book on cd and I also ordered the FS
reader software from freedom scientific and the user authorization cd
also
from rfb. I thought to purchase the FS reader since you can obtain the
pc
and pacmate versions both at once and i figured it would work with jaws
pretty well. I installed the software and called rfb in order to
authorize
it to play the rfb books. That went ok. I opened up the book and typed
in
my pin number and the book appeared. Jaws navigation worked fine going
between the tree view list of chapters as well as the text window.
However
there was no text in the text window, just what appeared to be chapter
names
and page numbers. Also, the audio of the book would not play. Now i
opened
up the jaws6 basic training and the text appeared fine for that book but
the
audio still wouldn't play, also would not play in the fs reader demo
included with jaws6. I tested other demos of daisy book reader software
and
they worked fine with the jaws book. I called FS tech support and we
couldn't figure out what to do. The only thing i can think of is to
upgrade
to service pack 2 of windows xp but i don't think that would fix the
problem
either. I always make sure i have the latest versions of everything
such as
windows media player 10 and direct x 9.0c. So I plan on calling FS
later
today to see if I may get a refund on the software since it doesn't
appear
to work on my system. I also didn't install the pacmate program either
since I was going to wait on that to support rfbd books if it ever will
that
is.
I'm not sure what I should do now and I was wondering if anyone had any
opinions? I was talking to my parents about it and they said they'd
help me
purchase a new program or piece of hardware to use to read the books. I
was
looking at book wizard reader by APH and it seems ok, just can't seem to
read the text of the jaws book with either jaws itself or one of the MS
sapi
voices in the text view with the arrow keys or playback keys. Other
then
that, it seems like a good program. However i was thinking with
software, i
could probably display the text and audio at the same time but with
hardware, i won't be tied down to my pc.
I was perhaps thinking of purchasing bookwizard reader and the bookport
and
getting that authorized for rfbd. That device also plays other file
formats
which I think would be nice to have, especially audible files since the
audible player won't install on my pacmate. Or do i perhaps buy a
program
and one of the portable cd players from the recording for the blind? I
don't
know what any of them are like since there don't appear to be demos.
I'd
like something that's easy to learn so i won't have to struggle with it
and
i could read the book.
I'd like to get this problem solved as quickly as possible so I can
participate fully in class reading. If I can't get a refund on the FS
reader software, I guess i'll just keep it and if i ever get a laptop,
maybe
it will work on that. Unfortunately, i don't think rfb would give me a
refund on the fs reader authorization cd.
Thanks for any help or opinions, it would be greatly appreciated. Feel
free
to contact me at any of the messenger screen names below, skype and
Yahoo
messenger don't work on my universities network but aim and msn do.
Sincerely
Jay Pellis
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