even tho their are the more natural sounding voices on the stream when you get use to them, they are really not that great. I'll take double-talk any day.
Jeff----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:10 AM Subject: [bookport] New Version of Bookport?
I see that Springer Design has recently introduced the new Book Courier called the Book Courier Braille. Looks like all of the features that were slated to be in the Bookport II. Does this mean that there is still a chance to see a new bookport or does this device already have everything in it that the Bookport was to have?By the way, in the documentation of the Book Courier Braille (which includesthe braille note taking capability of the Bookport), I did not see any mention of: - Being able to read NLS books - Being able to read DRM protected files (like those that can now be directly downloaded from RFB&D as well as many public libraries) I was a bit disappointed to see that they decided to go with the oldDoubletalk speech synthesizer rather than one of the newer and more naturalsounding synthesizers like people are now enjoying on the Victor Reader Stream. -- pete
