[Dtb-talk] Reader Reviews?

[Mike Freeman]

I'll have to play with a Book Port Plus some time. I was going to purchase
one at the 2010 NFB convention when my Stream gave up the ghost but APH had
run out of them and I'd already bought another Stream because of this. The
irony was that Humanware didn't have a unit there, either. But I'd already
paid so decided not to worry about it.

In truth, barring my lack of experience with the Book Port Plus interface, I
still think the Stream is about the most intuitive of the interfaces.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dan Burke
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 5:48 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Reader Reviews?

BookPort Plus, like the Pocket and Stream, uses Nuance Vocalizer for TTS.

Unfortunately.

Otherwise, APH has done a great job re-imagining the user interface
for the BPP.

The Stream, thogh, has better battery life than bookport.
Dan

On 7/16/11, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> I note that I forgot to answer your question re NLS and Apple products.
The
> answer is that NLS *is* thinking about it but no decisions have been made
> yet.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 8:37 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Reader Reviews?
>
> Hi.
>
> First, while the BookSense has the best voice, it has a few quirks. (1)
> there is no way to enter an arbitrary text search; one must search for the
> word under the cursor. (2) I have found a Bookshare Daisy book that has
> enough mark-up that the BookSense choked on it while the Victor Reader
> Stream processed it just fine albeit after some wait. I should imagine
this
> is because the BookSense uses Windows CE whereas the Stream runs under
Linux
> which, I would assume, has better memory management/garbage collection.
But
> I like both players.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Eric SS
> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:21 AM
> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Reader Reviews?
>
>> Mike, thanks. I am leaning toward the Booksense.
>
> BTW, has there been any hint NLS might be considering Apple devices. If
> thath was to  happen and Bookshare ever gets their act together and
finishes
> an app, reading would be good.
>
> Thank you, again.
>
> ESS
>
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