[DSM-Iowa] Braille Technology Marches Forward

[Pam Quinn]

    The NLS E-reader is absolutely awesome, and the 20-cell is perfect for me. I love how with the case, it looks just like a small hard-cover book that you can just throw in your purse or whatever. The advantages of these new displays of course would be the addition of bookshare and Newsline, and the ability to create files. I've heard that eventually text to speech might be included as well. Wondering which speech it would be as I prefer the synthesized as opposed to the more "human sounding" speech. That would be great if it happened to be Eloquence, although not holding my breath on that one. Thanks for the info. I'm off to check out the tutorial. 

Pam Quinn



From: Robert Ray via DSM-Iowa 
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 10:30 AM
To: dsm-iowa at nfbnet.org 
Cc: rjray at q.com 
Subject: [DSM-Iowa] Braille Technology Marches Forward


Greetings,

 

This week Humanware has released two new Braille displays. They are of course part of the Brailliant line of displays. 

 

The first one is the BI 20 X. This display is very much like a display the APH announced last summer. A few of the highlights of it are

20 cell Braille display

If you have  the E-reader from NLS this machine will look for all purposes identical.

It does all of the things that the e-reader does plus having a notepad built into it.

It not only will connect with BARD but also, Bookshare and NFB Newsline.

 

If you are interested in having a device that has these features it is currently priced at $1,895.

 

Next is the BI 40X.

 

This device has

40 cells

The same basic design as the BI 20X .

 

The differences for the 40 are that it does not have an SDcard slot. However, you can put files on it from a jumpdrive. In addition, the 20 has 16 Gigabytes of memory and the 40 has 32 gigabytes of memory.

The price of this device is $3,195.

 

No, these devices have not gone to the newer lower priced braille cells but they are good solid devices and even though they are higher price points than any of us would have liked to see they are available ready to go.

 

I should also remind you that Pat Fisher with Nanopac will work with you for discounted pricing.

 

One last thing on this subject. Humanware has a contract with Mystic Access to provide audio tutorials for their devices. If you wish to have one of these tutorials go the 

www.mysticaccess.com/free downloads

 

and download the tutorial you wish to try.

 

Bob Ray

 



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