[bookport] Re: my bookport is dead
- From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:20:15 -0700
Rob, Thanks to Pamela Raeder, everything is coming up roses. I reformatted
the card within the bookport and when I went into book port transfer is
reloaded the manual. Files are coming down just great.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 7:46 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: my bookport is dead
> Hi Rob and all,
> I downloaded the new update 2.0 and was reading books just fine.
> yesterday
> i got a battery low message. i changed batteries and found that I had no
> files in bookport, not even the manual. I am wondering if i should format
> my one gig card or get a new one. The manual isn't there. Should i send
> it
> in for repair. I wrote pamela but as of yes have received no answer. I
> realize she must be very busy. I am really having bookport withdrawls.
> Help.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 5:36 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Expansion in addition to Compression
>
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>>I wouldn't hold my breath for speech expansion; this is not of much, if
>> any, use in our field. In any case, expansion is not what you want,
>> since the pitch will still be three times higher than normal; everything
>> would just play more slowly. What you really need is a program that can
>> change the sample rate of the file before converting to MP3. In other
>> words, play a cassette in at 2X normal speed while recording at 44,100,
>> then use a program to change the sample rate to 22,050. Note: this is
>> not resampling, just a quick change of the sample rate value.
>>
>> Rob Meredith
>>
>>>>> pietruk@xxxxxxxxx 05/19/05 08:13PM >>>
>> The other day, it occurred to me that it might be nice to be able to
>> take
>> NLS cassette books or magazines, record them asmp3 files on the pc, and
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>> then transfer them to the bp.
>> I can, of course, play NLS tapes at double or triple speed, allowing me
>> to
>> make each track into a mp3 files in 30-45 minutes.
>> So far, so good.
>> My problem, however, at this point is that I need something to expand
>> the
>> speech so that the files will sound normal on the BP.
>> HOW DIFFICUlt would it be to have the BpP transfer software support
>> speech
>> expansion in addition to compression?
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