[nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

[Chris Nusbaum]

Yeah, you're right, dude! I think RFB&D also has an app.

Chris

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of josh gregory
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:26 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

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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