[Electronics-talk] setting radios

[David Andrews]

One of the models of the Book Sense daisy player 
from Hims has a radio that speaks 
frequencies.  There was the Narrator from Best 
Buy, but I don't think it is available any longer.

Dave


>Hi all, Setting up the radio station you want is 
>with buttons on most radios; in the past, you 
>had a tuner knob to set stations and no digital 
>way to program in stations. Its important to see 
>the station to know where you are. Are there 
>talking radios? I know the ipods read you the 
>station frequency you’re at, but other than 
>that, I can’t think of anything accessible. 
>How do you find the stations you want? Just 
>listen? Ocasionally with good light, I can see 
>the number. Otherwise, I have to listen and 
>guess what station I’m at based on the music 
>played and number of times I’ve pressed a 
>button. For instance if I’m at 99.5 and wish 
>to go to 98.7, I know I don’t have to press 
>the buttons much to get there, but if I wanted 
>to tune to 88.5, I have a long way to go. For 
>music, I love cds! I find them most accessible 
>as you simply put in your cd and press buttons 
>to go to the track you desire or play it on the 
>pc with something like windows media player, and 
>still select your track or listen straight 
>through. Old fashioned, but I find its most 
>accessible except for the ipod route. Most music 
>services such as rhapsody are not very 
>accessible. Oh, nor is the hd radio real 
>accessible either. So cds, IMO, are one of the best options. Ashley