[Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice recorder

[Dewey Bradley]

The VR stream does work quite nice though, but most blind people can't 
afford it, I'm lucky to live in Missouri I guess, but I think even are 
library has stopped giveing them out, that's what sucks about it, it is made 
for us, but we can't aford it.
O Well

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics andappliances" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice 
recorder


> At 09:27 AM 5/17/2011, you wrote:
>>Has the victor gone up that much? I bought mine 3 years ago and it was 
>>339.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:21:20 am
>>To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
>><electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>From: "Frida Aizenman" <aizenman at earthlink.net>
>>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice 
>>recorder
>>
>>No, the Stream is $329 as it always was.  I believe what was meant was the 
>>Book Sense from Hymms, the upper model, the XT I think it is called, is 
>>$449.
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> Dave
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>>I come kicking and screaming onto the 21st century. LOL.
>>Never before in my life, had I had a digital recorder. As far as I am
>>concern, for now, the Olympus DM520 Digital Recorder with Talking Menus is
>>as good as it gets. It costs $195. Give or take, the Milestone 12 costs
>>$400. The Victor Reader costs $449. Sure, it has more features, but at 
>>the
>>moment, I don't need more. As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for."
>>And don't forget that the next time you want the same product, it might 
>>not
>>be around anymore. You no longer can get a Milestone 11 any more. Of 
>>course,
>>that is not all bad, because sometimes you find a better product.
>>The only thing not accessible on the Olympus DM520 is being able to set 
>>the
>>time and date by yourself. According to the podcast I listen to, and 
>>learned
>>from, the blind community worked with Olympus on accessibility for this
>>product.
>>The podcast can be found at:
>>Blind Cool Tech Podcast
>>
>>http://www.blindcooltech.com/
>>and then link on
>>Olympus DM520 And DM420
>>Also, if you go to the Olympus Company at:
>>olympusamerica.com/support
>>the manual is on a type of PDF that is inaccessible.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Oso Calmo" <osocalmo at yahoo.co.jp>
>>To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>><electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 7:48 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice
>>recorder
>>
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>> > Thank you, Frida, for telling me your experience.  In fact, I'm looking
>> > for a much cheaper one: let's say $50 or $60.  There are lots of cheap
>> > voice recorders, but either they are not accessible or they don't have
>> > computer interface.
>> >
>> > Is your Olympus voice recorder really good?
>> > In fact, I had a sad experience last year when I tried
>> > dm-4.  The menues talked but not all the time (all the items). 
>> > Sometimes
>> > I had to wait a lot for the voice to come and there were some instances
>> > where it didn't speak.  So, I thought that I would have to remember all
>> > the instances it didn't talk to be able to use it comfortably.  There 
>> > were
>> > some instances when I had no idea about what was happening unless I ask
>> > someone to look at the screen.
>> > Also, I could use daisy to some extent, but it seems that to be able to 
>> > do
>> > fine jumps, etc, you have to rely on the screen.  I couldn't install 
>> > the
>> > software to easily exchange files with my computer, even using the 
>> > latest
>> > version of JAWS.  Jaws couldn't speak any dialogs of the installer and 
>> > I
>> > couldn't read them even in review cursor mode.  So I needed sighted
>> > assistance to have it installed.
>> >
>> > Its sound quality is very good and it has lots of interesting 
>> > functions;
>> > so I really wanted to be able to use it and buy one, but I got tired. 
>> > I
>> > downloaded the manual from the internet and it was really difficult to
>> > read, too: very specific and, as a result, full of repetitions, 
>> > absolutely
>> > easy to read for a sighted person, because they can easily jump to the
>> > desired item and have all the information they need there, skipping the
>> > t
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