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[Mike Freeman]

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From: "HumanWare" <nicolas.lagace at humanware.com>
To: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:20 PM
Subject: HumanWare Unveils Victor Reader Stream 3.0


HUMANWARE UNVEILS VICTOR READER STREAM 3.0

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Los Angeles California, March 17, 2009 -- Today at the annual CSUN 
technology conference in Los Angeles, HumanWare announced the latest 
version of its popular Victor Reader Stream DAISY NISO book player, MP3 
player, and voice recorder. The latest release of software for the 
Stream is version 3.0. It is a free upgrade software for the tens of 
thousands of users who now enjoy their Stream worldwide.

Version 3.0 is a major release packed with new features that continue to 
distinguish the Stream as the industry leader among pocket size 
accessible players. Version 3.0 responds to popular requests received 
from many Stream customers. New features include:

• Multi-level bookshelf navigation for Other Books, Podcasts, and Text. 
Now you can optionally organize these bookshelves into multiple levels 
of folders and navigate at those levels.
• Multi-level folder navigation within Music files. For example, now you 
could choose to organize your music by levels such as genre, artist, and 
album and navigate at those levels to more quickly find your desired 
music.
• Further you can now instantly create temporary playlists of any subset 
of your music collection and limit Random play to only that portion of 
your music.
• Moreover, you can turn random play on or off with a single key press 
like many commercial MP3 players.
• Text Search. Yes, now you can enter words to search for in your text 
files or text-only DAISY books.
• Bookmark alert. You can enable an optional bookmark alert feature to 
notify you when you are playing a book and pass over a previously 
bookmarked position. It will even automatically announce your audio 
bookmarks.
• Two text-to-speech voices. The English version of Stream 3.0 will now 
include both a male and female text-to-speech voice.
• A 30 minute Time Jump feature and many other usability improvements 
have been added.


"With the increasing use of 8gb, 16, and even 32gb storage cards, users 
are managing ever increasing amounts of data on their Stream", says 
Gerry Chevalier, Victor Reader Product Manager. "With thousands of music 
files and hundreds of podcasts or text files they have asked us to 
provide more efficient navigation and version 3 delivers just that."

Says Chevalier, "The improved navigation as well as the bookmark alert, 
text search and other usability improvements in Stream 3.0 renews 
HumanWare's commitment to our Stream customers that we would continue to 
enhance the Stream over time to maximize their Stream investment."

And there's more. HumanWare is pleased to announce that Stream 3.0 will 
also be accompanied by a completely new-look Stream Companion software. 
The new Stream Companion 3.0 Windows software has a completely new menu 
driven interface, support for the new Bookshare zip format, and more.

HumanWare expects to have both the Stream 3.0 and Companion 3.0 
available for free download before the end of March. The software will 
be made available on the Stream Support Page 
(http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/support/victor_reader_stream). To 
receive  an email announcement for this release and stay informed on 
future Stream activities be sure to Register to the Stream Newswire 
(http://www.humanware.com/en-canada/products/blindness/dtb_players/compact_models/stream_news).


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Contact:

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UK/Europe: +44 1933 415 800

Canada: 1 888 723-7273 or +1 450 463 1717

Australia/Asia: +61 2 9686 2600

New Zealand:  +64 3 384 4555



Media contact:

HumanWare
Nicolas Lagace
Tel.: (450) 463-1717
E-mail: nicolas.lagace at humanware.com



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