[Electronics-talk] Electronics-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 16
Phil Templet
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Mon Mar 23 12:10:38 UTC 2009
Google talk What is google talk
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: olympus ds-50 (Zach D)
2. Re: One number to ring them all (Zach D)
3. zenstone 2 gb mp3 player (Rachel and Rhett)
4. Re: olympus ds-50 (Bryan Schulz)
5. Re: zenstone 2 gb mp3 player (Christopher Chaltain)
6. A Different Kind of social networking site
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:38:42 -0600
From: Zach D <chickerland at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] olympus ds-50
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and
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Is this a phone, or what kind of device?
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
>To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:45 -0500
>Subject: [Electronics-talk] olympus ds-50
>hi,
>my olympus ws-310 came out before the talking ds-50 and it has
had a tough life.
>i took the hit and bought the ds-50 and am impressed with it.
>Does the voice speak the different recording modes or is that
feature only settable by someone with vision?
>Bryan Schulz
>The BEST Solution
>www.best-acts.com
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:44:28 -0600
From: Zach D <chickerland at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] One number to ring them all
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Cool! Very neat! Do u have google talk yet?
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com
>To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:24:28 -0400
>Subject: [Electronics-talk] One number to ring them all
>This sounds great!
> Tech Update of the N Y Times, Washington Post, and MIT's Tech
Review
> State of the Art
> One Number to Ring Them All
> By DAVID POGUE
> If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail
revolutionized
> free e-mail, then one thing's for sure: Google Voice,
unveiled
> Thursday, will revolutionize telephones.
> It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail,
blocks
> telemarketers and elevates [10]text messages to first-class
> communication citizens. And that's just the warm-up.
> Google Voice began life in 2005 as something called
GrandCentral. It
> was, in its own way, revolutionary.
> It was intended to solve the headaches of having more than
one phone
> number (home, work, cellphone and so on): Having to check
multiple
> answering machines. Missing calls when people try to reach
you on your
> cell when you're at home (or the other way around).
Sending around
> e-mail at work that says, "On Thursday from 5 to 8:30, I'll
be on my
> cell; for the rest of the weekend, call me at home." And
having to
> change phone numbers when you switched jobs or cities.
> GrandCentral's solution was to offer you a new, single,
unified phone
> number, in an area code of your choice. Whenever somebody
dialed your
> uni-number, all of your phones rang at once.
> No longer did people have to track you down by dialing
multiple
> numbers; no matter where you were, your uni-number found
you. And all
> voice mail messages landed in a single voice mail box, on
the Web. (You
> could also dial in to hear them as usual.)
> On the Web, you could play back your messages or even
download them as
> audio files to preserve for posterity. You could even ask
to be
> notified of new voice mail by e-mail.
> But wait, there was more. Each time you answered a call,
while the
> caller was still hearing "one ringy-dingy, two
ringy-dingies," you
> heard a recording offering four ways to handle the call:
"Press 1 to
> accept, 2 to send to voice mail, 3 to listen in on voice
mail, or 4 to
> accept and record the call." If you pressed 3, the call
went directly
> to voice mail, but you could listen in. If you felt that
the caller
> deserved your immediate attention, you could press * to
pick up and
> join the call. This subtle feature saved time, conserved
cellular
> minutes and, in certain cases, avoided a great deal of
interpersonal
> conflict.
> GrandCentral also let you record a different voice mail
greeting for
> each person in your address book: "Hey, dollface, leave me
a sweet
> nothing" for your love interest, "Hi, boss, I'm out making
us both some
> money" for your employer.
> You could also specify which phones would ring when certain
people
> called. (For the really annoying people in your life, you
could even
> tell GrandCentral to answer with the classic, three-tone
"The number
> you have dialed is no longer in service" message.)
> Also very cool: Any time during a call, you could press the
* key to
> make all of your phones ring again, so that you could pick
up on a
> different phone in midcall. If you were heading out the
door, you could
> switch a landline call to your cellphone.
> GrandCentral also offered telemarketing spam filters,
off-hour call
> blocking ("never ring my BlackBerry on weekends"), and a
dizzying
> number of other functions. For people with complicated
lives,
> GrandCentral was a breath of fresh air. It felt like a
secret power
> that nobody else had.
> Then, in 2007, Google bought GrandCentral. It stopped
accepting new
> members, ceased any visible work on it, and, apparently,
forgot about
> it completely. The early adopters, several hundred
thousand of them,
> were able to keep using GrandCentral's features. But as
time went on,
> their hearts sank. In January, Salon.com summed it up in
an editorial
> called, "Will the Last One to Leave GrandCentral Please
Turn Out the
> Lights?"
> As it turns out, the joke was on them. Google was quietly
working on
> GrandCentral all along. Starting Thursday, existing
GrandCentral
> members can upgrade to Google Voice. In a few weeks, after
debugging
> the system, Google will open the service to all.
> Google Voice starts with a clean, redesigned Web site that
looks like
> an in box, a la Gmail. It maintains all of those original
GrandCentral
> features - but more important, introduces four
game-changing new ones.
> FREE VOICE MAIL TRANSCRIPTIONS From now on, you don't have
to listen to
> your messages in order; you don't have to listen to them at
all. In
> seconds, these recordings are converted into typed text.
They show up
> as e-mail messages or text messages on your cellphone.
> This is huge. It means that you can search, sort, save,
forward, copy
> and paste voice mail messages.
> No human effort is involved; it's all done with software.
As a result,
> the transcriptions are rarely perfect. For one thing,
Google's software
> doesn't seem to have discovered punctuation yet. ("ohh hi
it's michelle
> i just wanted to let you know that i really had fun last
night and it's
> really great to see you okay talk to you later bye bye.")
> There are errors, of course; it's hard enough for people to
understand
> cellphone conversations, let alone computers. Cleverly
enough, the Web
> site displays transcribed words more faintly (light gray)
when it is
> less confident about the transcription. Fortunately, it
generally nails
> numbers -- phone numbers, arrival times, addresses. And
the rest is
> accurate enough to convey the gist.
> Companies like PhoneTag, Callwave and Spinvox already
transcribe voice
> mail, complete with punctuation. They're great, but they
cost money.
> Google Voice is free.
> FREE CONFERENCE CALLING Never again will you pay for a
conference call,
> or require a special dial-in number, or mess around with
access codes.
> All you do is tell your friends to call your GrandCentral
at the
> specified time -- and boom, you can conference them in as
they call
> you. No charge.
> DIRT-CHEAP INTERNATIONAL CALLS If you dial your own Google
Voice number
> from one of your phones, you're offered an option to call
overseas at
> rates even lower than Skype's (and much lower than your
cellphone
> company's): 2 cents a minute to France or China, 3 cents to
Chile or
> the Czech Republic. Sweet.
> TEXT MESSAGE ORGANIZATION Google Voice's last feature is
its most
> profound. The old GrandCentral wasn't great with text
messages sent to
> your uni-number. In fact, it ignored them. They just
disappeared.
> Google Voice, however, does the right thing: it sends text
messages to
> whichever cellphones you want -- even multiple phones
simultaneously.
> Even more important, it collects them in your Web in-box
just like
> e-mail. You can file them, search them and, for the first
time in
> cellphone history, keep them. They don't vanish forever
once your
> cellphone gets full.
> You can also reply to them with a click, either with a call
or another
> text; your back-and-forths appear online as a conversation.
> Google Voice eliminates some of the annoyances of its
predecessor. You
> can, if you wish, turn off that "press 1, press 2" option,
so when the
> phone rings, you can just pick it up and start talking.
Google has also
> done some Googlish integration; for example, your Gmail and
Google
> Voice address books are the same.
> Nitpicks? Sure. The service has vastly beefed up its
selection of
> available uni-numbers, but there are still some area codes
you can't
> get (212 is especially rare). As a side effect of Google
Voice's
> ring-all-phones-at-once technology, you sometimes find
fragments of
> Google Voice error recordings on the answering machines of
the phones
> you didn't answer. (Solution: make your voice mail
greeting at least 15
> seconds long.) There's a learning curve to all of this,
too.
> Still, you can't imagine how much the game changes when you
have a
> single phone number, voice mail transcriptions and
nondeleting text
> messages on every phone. Suddenly, your communications are
not only
> unified, but they're unified everywhere at once -- the
cellphone, the
> Web and the e-mail program. And all of it free -- even
ad-free.
> There mthe cay be some fallout as a result; I'd hate to be
a company
> that
> sells voice mail transcription or conferencing calling
services right
> about now. But that's life, right? Every now and then, a
little
> revolution is good for us.
>E-mail: pogue at nytimes.com
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:26:16 -0700
From: "Rachel and Rhett" <serenityangel1983 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Electronics-talk] zenstone 2 gb mp3 player
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
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Hi everyone.
I recently got a zenstone mp3 player 2gb for my birthday. Is there anyone out there who can assist me with the basics of getting up and running with it? Does anyone know if there is an accessible user's guide for it? The one provided is okay, but there are lots of graphics.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and you can email me offlist at:
serenityangel1983 at gmail.com
Thanks.
Rachel and Rhett
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:38 -0500
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] olympus ds-50
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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hi,
not to be an ass, but in life, don't wait for people to cater to you, take
the bull by the horns and dig for answers and things for yourself like on
google.
it is a popular digital voice recorder which also has some talking menu
features.
Bryan Schulz
The BEST Solution
www.best-acts.com
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From: "Zach D" <chickerland at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics andappliances"
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] olympus ds-50
> Is this a phone, or what kind of device?
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
>>To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:45 -0500
>>Subject: [Electronics-talk] olympus ds-50
>
>>hi,
>
>>my olympus ws-310 came out before the talking ds-50 and it has
> had a tough life.
>>i took the hit and bought the ds-50 and am impressed with it.
>>Does the voice speak the different recording modes or is that
> feature only settable by someone with vision?
>
>>Bryan Schulz
>>The BEST Solution
>>www.best-acts.com
>>_______________________________________________
>>Electronics-talk mailing list
>>Electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>>http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/electronics-talk_nfbnet.or
> g
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:39 -0500
From: Christopher Chaltain <cchaltain at austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] zenstone 2 gb mp3 player
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
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I found this page was very helpful:
http://www.hartgen.org/Zen%20Stone.html
Rachel and Rhett wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I recently got a zenstone mp3 player 2gb for my birthday. Is there anyone out there who can assist me with the basics of getting up and running with it? Does anyone know if there is an accessible user's guide for it? The one provided is okay, but there are lots of graphics.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated and you can email me offlist at:
> serenityangel1983 at gmail.com
>
> Thanks.
> Rachel and Rhett
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:47:47 EDT
From: Kenlawrence124 at aol.com
Subject: [Electronics-talk] A Different Kind of social networking site
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Hi List members, Ken here. Today for her cool site of the day, Kim Komando
had a social networking site for people with disabilities and care providers.
There are Blogs about adaptive sports, assistive technology, and more.
There are posts about the movie blindness found in the community forum on the
site to, but according to the search there are no members of the federation on
it. Sign up is easy, there is a graphic Capcha, but it has a Wav file
alternative so you can listen to it. You just have to get used to the fact that
it's a British accent so you may have to hit the listen link a couple times,
but I signed up to it. I think we have a lot to share on the site so if anyone
is interested simply go to _www.disaboom.com_ (http://www.disaboom.com/) and
sign up to it.
I pledge to participate actively in the efforts of the national federation
of the blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind; to
support the policies and programs of the federation; and abide by its
constitution.
I pledge to participate actively in the efforts of the national federation
of the blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind; to
support the policies and programs of the federation; and abide by its
constitution.
**************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or
less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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