[bookshare-discuss] Re: Hi!

  • From: Brenda Mueller <brendin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:13:08 -0400

Oh, no, Julie,
You can get scanners to read with notetakers.  Back in '93 I took out a loan 
and bought a reading edge.  It scans, converts to ascii text, and reads the 
result in voice.  I was using Braille and Speak at the time to go online, 
participate in live chats, host my topic on Delphi, etc.  I called Blazie 
Engineering, the people that produced Braille and Speak and got a cable to use 
with reading edge.  I could then download what I scanned onto a disk in the 
disk drive that one could purchase for Braille and speak.  Then I could load 
the contents of the disk in to Braille and Speak, correct the scanning errors, 
send the corrected text to a disk, and add my new book to my library in the 
file box.  I think Pulsedata has made a scanner that will work with braille 
note and possibly voice note.  I'm going to talk to my pulsedata rep. about it. 
 There are things out there.  One has to be careful to get the right kind of 
scanner, one that produces an ascii  text file and not that other kin
 d!
.  I'll let you know what I find out when I get the chance to talk to the 
representative.  Hope this helps someone.

Brenda Mueller


> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "J.M." <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:08:44 -0700
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Hi!

>Hi, Brenda. I don't know of any scanners that work with notetakers, although
>I could be wrong. Everyone that I know of uses their scanner with a PC or
>laptop. Take care.
>Julie Morales
>Email and Windows/MSN Messenger:
>inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>When God puts a tear in your eye, it is because He wants to put a rainbow in
>your heart.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brenda Mueller" <brendin@xxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:44 PM
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Hi!


>Hi Jana,

>Thanks for the welcome.  Yes, I'd like to volunteer and help obtain books
>for bookshare, but before I can, I'll have to find a good scanner that can
>work with voice note.  Then there's the question of whether or not I can
>upload books from voice note onto bookshare, after I had scanned them.  This
>validation process sounds a little daunting.  Never mind; one step at a
>time.

>Brenda Mueller






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