[Electronics-talk] HumanWare Unveils Victor Reader Stream 3.0

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HUMANWARE UNVEILS VICTOR READER STREAM 3.0

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Los Angeles California, March 17, 2009 -- Today 
at the annual CSUN technology conference in Los 
Angeles, HumanWare announced the latest version 
of its popular Victor Reader Stream DAISY NISO 
book player, MP3 player, and voice recorder. The 
latest release of software for the Stream is 
version 3.0. It is a free upgrade software for 
the tens of thousands of users who now enjoy their Stream worldwide.

Version 3.0 is a major release packed with new 
features that continue to distinguish the Stream 
as the industry leader among pocket size 
accessible players. Version 3.0 responds to 
popular requests received from many Stream customers. New features include:

• Multi-level bookshelf navigation for Other 
Books, Podcasts, and Text. Now you can optionally 
organize these bookshelves into multiple levels 
of folders and navigate at those levels.
• Multi-level folder navigation within Music 
files. For example,  now you could choose to 
organize your music by levels such as genre, 
artist, and album and navigate at those levels to 
more quickly find your desired music.
• Further you can now instantly create temporary 
playlists of any subset of your music collection 
and limit Random play to only that portion of your music.
• Moreover, you can turn random play on or off 
with a single key  press like many commercial MP3 players.
• Text Search. Yes, now you can enter words to 
search for in your text files or text-only DAISY books.
• Bookmark alert. You can enable an optional 
bookmark alert feature to notify you when you are 
playing a book and pass over a previously 
bookmarked position. It will even automatically announce your audio bookmarks.
• Two text-to-speech voices. The English version 
of Stream 3.0 will now include both a male and female text-to-speech voice.
• A 30 minute Time Jump feature and many other 
usability improvements have been added.


"With the increasing use of 8gb, 16, and even 
32gb storage cards, users are managing ever 
increasing amounts of data on their Stream", says 
Gerry Chevalier, Victor Reader Product Manager. 
"With thousands of music files and hundreds of 
podcasts or text files they have asked us to 
provide more efficient navigation and version 3 delivers just that."

Says Chevalier, "The improved navigation as well 
as the bookmark alert, text search and other 
usability improvements in Stream 3.0 renews 
HumanWare's commitment to our Stream customers 
that we would continue to enhance the Stream over 
time to maximize their Stream investment."

And there's more. HumanWare is pleased to 
announce that Stream 3.0 will also be accompanied 
by a completely new-look Stream Companion 
software. The new Stream Companion 3.0 Windows 
software has a completely new menu driven 
interface, support for the new Bookshare zip format, and more.

HumanWare expects to have both the Stream 3.0 and 
Companion 3.0 available for free download before 
the end of March. The software will be made 
available on the Stream Support Page 
(http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/support/victor_reader_stream). 
To receive  an email announcement for this 
release and stay informed on future Stream 
activities be sure to Register to the Stream 
Newswire 
(http://www.humanware.com/en-canada/products/blindness/dtb_players/compact_models/stream_news).


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Nicolas Lagace
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