[bookport] Re: Sporadic Jumping Backward While Reading With Speech

  • From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:09:27 -0600

The only odd thing I have seen is that sometimes, when attempting to
move forward through a text file, I will have to press, for example, the
6 key four or five times before I actually do move forward.  I have
never suddenly jumped backward while reading a file.=20

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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Jones
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Subject: [bookport] Re: Sporadic Jumping Backward While Reading With
Speech


I have never seen this either.

--
Barbara Jones
=20
=20


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On Behalf Of Robert Carter
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:33 PM
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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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