[nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

[josh gregory]

Reading in braille is much of a requirement in school nowadays, and
it's weird to have a voice read it, no matter how human-sounding it
may be.
  iOS has advantages here. I know some people may say iPod/iPhone/iPad
is too expensive, and how is it relevant to this? Well, it is.
Benetech has an app known as read2go. It's $20.00, but well worth it,
in my opinion. There are human sounding voices, and standalone braille
support if you turn the bookshare audio off so that it can only read
with voiceover, and turn speech off. There is a download option in the
app as well, and finally, I think it can play daisy books other than
Bookshare, because it says it can in the app store description.
  Oh, and if anyone has this app and needs help on it, do feel free to
let me know! :)
Hth and thanks,
Josh

On 4/25/12, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ashley,
>
> I'm not sure about the WMA thing. Did RFB&D send that announcement out in an
> email to all of its members? If so, I haven't seen it, unless I missed it.
>
> To answer your question about how we play our RFBD books, I play mine on my
> Victor Reader Stream. My school's stupid firewall blocks the download of
> large files, including books, so I have to order the book in DAISY CD
> format, which I wish wasn't the case. I then use the Humanware Companion
> software on my computer to transfer the content on the DAISY CD onto my
> Stream. If you are interested in upgrading from the Classic to the Stream, I
> and most of my blind friends found the Stream to be very easy to learn. If
> you have any questions about using the Stream, feel free to email me
> off-list and I will try to help. I say the same to any other people on this
> list who might be having issues with your Streams or are interested in
> upgrading to the Stream, but have some questions.
>
>  Also, if you ordered a DAISY copy of the book you need, I believe it can be
> played on a computer if you don't want a DAISY player such as the Stream.
> These DAISY CD's can be ordered from RFBD's Web site and mailed to you. By
> the way, to be honest, I find myself using RFBD less and less, and Bookshare
> more and more. There's just something I like about reading a book,
> especially one for school, in Braille, even if it is on a Braille display.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:23 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA
>
> Hi all,
>
> Do any of you use the WMA, windows media audio, to play books? How does it
> work? Do you navigate from chapter to chapter? If so how?
> I’d like to try it as it’s a convenient free way to do it before this change
> is taking place.
>
> Did you all know that in May Learning ally is no longer supporting WMA? They
> say due to industry standards they cannot offer WMA format anymore and are
> urging members to get a daisy player. I don’t know why they are taking away
> options. But this doesn’t sound good.  Before I believe you could play their
> books in WMA format on any computer; now this won’t be the case.
>
> What do you all think? How do you play your learning ally books? And many
> daisy players humanware discontinued; like the victor reader classic and
> wave.
>
> Ashley
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