[bookport] Re: Sporadic Jumping Backward While Reading With Speech
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:36:43 -0500
Neither have I, although I have seen some rather odd behavior when moving in
what should have been short increments in one braille book I was reading
last week. Since I hadn't seen it before (and haven't since), I attribute it
to something specific to that one book.
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From: "Robert Carter" <r-carter@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:33 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Sporadic Jumping Backward While Reading With Speech
Hi,
I have never seen this.
Robert Carter
At 03:24 PM 11/2/2004, you wrote:
>I'll answer all three posts on this subject in this one. In response to
>Sarah, it happens when just reading along, so I've done nothing toward
>navigation at all. In this particular book, I could sometimes read for ten
>or fifteen minutes before it'd jump back, but it'd inevitably do just
>that. In response to James, I haven't been able to correlate this behavior
>with querying the machine for my location in the file. I very rarely query
>for my position. And, finally, in response to Lou, this behavior is
>present in books and magazines from Web Braille. Unlike a repeated scan
>which does occasionally happen with books from BookShare, these jumps
>aren't a whole page backward, just a couple hundred words.
>Jeremiah
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